The Lagos Bid Authorities (LASG) has pulled down no fewer than 13 structures at I.K. Peter Avenue, Ajao Property, cited in close proximity to the Murtala World Airport, Lagos.

The Overall Manager, Lagos Bid Constructing Abet watch over Agency (LASBCA), Mr. Gbolahan Owodunni Oki, giving reasons for the demolishment on Friday disclosed that the structures lacked required approvals and were cited around pipelines of aviation gas.

Oki who feared the havoc that a hearth outbreak from the pipeline might maybe perhaps maybe trigger to lives and properties, said the builders furthermore lacked required paperwork including Certificate of Occupancy (C.O.O).

In line with the GM, the structures were illegally constructed out of proceed push apart to the requirements of extant guidelines.

Bringing up that the structures had no planning permit and were constructed around aviation gas pipelines, he remarked that “no person in his lovely taking into account mind will proceed and purchase a build on a pipeline and make on the pipeline.”

He mentioned that due consultations and communications possess been made with enough time of about two years given to the occupants of the affected structures to evacuate the structures.

Oki lamented that constructing give diagram in Lagos had been a discipline of “attitudinal anguish”, pointing out that the structures were a nationwide risks to the airport being “extremely close”, pointing out that no lifetime of a Nigerian is worth being misplaced to the dangers that the citing of the structures pose.

He, however, cautioned these slamming criticisms on the government to consistently dig deep into the beautiful files, calling on them to listen to from the facet of the government, and no longer lickety-split jump into conclusion by being sympathetic to property home owners, without alive to with the threat and hazards that the structures would trigger, must the government turn a blind test.

Oki who known as on Lagosians to picture instances of unlawful structures to the government, said “turning a blind face to such constructions”, would undergo untoward consequences with some distance reaching losses.

On the experiences making rounds over incidents of reoccurring give diagram of structures, Oki said recorded incidents, to this level, must attain with structures which developers did no longer accurate its fame of supervision.

On its piece, the authority of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), said it invited the Lagos Bid Authorities to step into the anguish after several warnings in are trying to end the constructions of structures were no longer yielded by these it known as “encroachers”, who took from the land of the Airport.

Speaking on Friday, the Overall Manager, Business Model, FAAN,
Mr. Ngwu Hycienth, applauded the partnership with LASBCA to raise normalcy and decency to the Airport setting.

He lamented that the Authorities of the Airport began to perceive encroachment on its land in 2015, defying the no longer new rule that no constructing ought to be cited with regards to the perimeter fence of an Airport.

He lamented that the structures attain no longer most efficient pose security threats to the Airport, which he said would expose substantial financial losses to the nation, however furthermore has turn out to be grounds for theft of aviation gas and other properties belonging to the Airport.