LASG ISSUES SEVEN DAYS ULTIMATUM TO OWNERS OF DISTRESSED BUILDINGS

LASG issues seven-day ultimatum to owners of distressed buildings

he Lagos State Building Control Agency has given a seven-day ultimatum to owners of distressed buildings across the state to demolish them or bear the risk and cost of their demolition by the agency.

The LASBCA General Manager, Mr Olalekan Shodeinde, gave the ultimatum on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

Shodeinde said that LASBCA had identified and marked some distressed buildings for demolition in some areas of the state.

According to him, at the expiration of the ultimatum, LASBCA would demolish the buildings in accordance with the Lagos State Physical and Urban Planning Development Law, 2010.

Shodehinde warned that owners of such buildings would pay the demolition cost to the state government within 90 days, failure of which the government would confiscate the land.