Ogun to demolish Ibafo, Akute houses under high-tension cables

May 18, 2015

The Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has said the state will demolish houses built under high tension cables and right of way in the state.
He said this in Abeokuta on Monday during the presentation of Certificate of Occupancy to another batch of beneficiaries of the Home Owners’ Charter programme.
The governor said the state administration would not close its eyes to the disregard for planning in some areas of the state, adding that those houses built  on water and gas pipelines would be demolish.
Amosun added, “The Home Owners’ Charter programme is not for those who just built new houses. It is for those who had built their houses without the necessary approval years back.
Again, for those who had built their houses under high tension cables and on water and gas pipelines, those houses cannot stand, they must go. Those houses cannot stand under the current Ogun standard.”
The governor, who partially blamed past administrations in the state for allowing people to build houses without the necessary approval, said many settlements in Akute, Magboro, Ifo, Ofada, and Orimerunmu among others, were mostly affected.
He noted that land speculators in some of these settlements had sold every available space without any provision for the construction of public schools and health centres.
He hinted that some houses would be demolished to build schools and health centres, adding that those landlords who owned the houses that would be affected, would be relocated.
The Special Adviser/Director-General, Bureau of Lands and Survey, Mr. Adewale Oshinowo, said over 1,000 C of 0s were given to beneficiaries, describing the Home Owners’ Charter programme “as a well thought out programme.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of residents of six communities in Ifo Local Government Area had earlier staged a peaceful protest at the governor’s office in Oke Mosan  against the proposed demolition of their houses by the state government.

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The protesters, who were from Onala, Ilupeju, Unity Estate, Araromi and other communities in Agbado Oke Aro, a border area between Lagos and Ogun State, said they had come to appeal to the state government to have mercy on them and shelf the demolition plans meant to be carried out on Tuesday(tomorrow).