80% of Lekki Buildings Have No Approval – LASG
Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, stated that 80 per cent of buildings in Ibeju Lekki have no approval.
He disclosed this in a recent interview with newsmen.
He said, “Just last week Thursday and Friday, myself and the team were in the Ibeju Lekki and Epe axis and you would agree with me that anybody passing through that corridor would see a lot of estates marked. We went there, and I can tell you that from what we saw, over 80 per cent of them do not have approval.
“The procedure to get approval is first to get the planning information, as to what those areas have been zoned for. In this case, what we have is agricultural land, and people now go to their families to buy agricultural land. Of course, those lands would be sold because those families do not know the use such land would be put to.
“The next thing to do is the fence permit. If you missed the earlier information on not knowing the area zoning, at the point of getting the fence permit, you would be able to detect what the area is zoned for. After that, the layout permits a large expense of land follows.”
Olumide noted that a layout permit cannot be obtained if it is not zoned for the purpose it was designed for or for the purpose it was being requested.
“So, you can see all these layers, but people still go ahead to start advertising. Some have even gone to the extent of displaying the sizes they want to sell. Imagine someone in the diaspora who wants to send money without any knowledge. Then, no approval is eventually gotten. Even if they pass the assignment and the survey to them, we would not grant the individual permit, because that area is not zoned for that purpose,” the commissioner explained.
But why is the government not been proactive in cases like these until the areas has been occupied before we'll be hearing this kind of news
ReplyDeleteNot all the 80% are guilty. Some were drvieved and defrauded. Some do not know that the approval they have is not genuine. When this kind of situation arises, the government is supposed to go after the criminals. No, they will not. They are just after the owner of the land. Unfortunately, due to no correction, more people will be deceived. The same thing with the omo onile that sells land belonging to somebodys else or located on drainage or places not approved for building residential house. If government officials are not complicit, it costs this government nothing to deal with the omo onile selling people's land and those forging building approvals.
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