Anxiety Mounts As Lagos Govt Says 80% Of Lekki Buildings Have No Approval 

Anxiety has mounted among residents of the Lekki area of Lagos after the Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, said 80 per cent of buildings in Ibeju Lekki have no approval.

Olumide who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen 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.”

According to The Vanguard, 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,” he said.

See what netizens on X are saying about the development below:

@payegecode reacted, “This is scary. Because government can wake up tomorrow and begin to demolish Houses without approval in lekki. But why didn’t they stop it when they were building it.”

CEEJAY @Ceejaydope1 reacted, “So a whole 80% of lekki has no approval for the magnificent buildings erected there? This government never fails to baffle me, this information should definitely have its consequences…. This information doesn’t do well for foreign investments at all.”

@newbreed1 opined, “LASG is home to unsupervised criminality, people can pretend like they are not aware of it. How would LASG pretend that 80% of Lekki buildings have no approval if there is no collusion with the developers. Do you know what’s 80%?, I refused to believe the innocence of LASG!”

@anthonya…. questioned, “After more than 20 years in construction this is what we hear? 80% Of Lekki Buildings Have No Approval – Lagos Govt.

How is Yemi Alade wrong with her outburst or Mrs Maryanne Moghalu?”

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