{"id":2740,"date":"2016-10-31T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2016-11-02T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:31:31","slug":"new-housing-scheme-in-magodo-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/new-housing-scheme-in-magodo-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Housing Scheme in Magodo Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of Magodo estate under the support of the Magodo Resident Development Association (MRDA) have protested\u00a0plans by the Lagos State government <\/a>to create an\u00a0access road\u00a0through Block 89 A, Magodo Extension Magodo,\u00a0Lagos.<\/p>\n

The state government recently deployed a heavy earth-moving caterpillar to clear the bushes and\u00a0shanties along the\u00a0end of Ashiru Shittu Street of Magodo scheme.<\/p>\n

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Before now,\u00a0works\u00a0at the channelization of a\u00a0canal between Magodo brooks and Omole Phase 1, have created a disharmony between residents and the Government leading to temporary\u00a0stoppage of works at the site. Now, the residents have alleged that the move is connected to the plan to link the estate with Omole, creating access for allottees to a new housing scheme located<\/a>\u00a0near the area and this would create environmental hazards for the residents, they argued but the government has started\u00a0engaging the residents on its plan for the area, which has been turned to hideouts for criminals and miscreants.<\/p>\n

The Head of\u00a0Public Relations and Complaints,\u00a0Lagos Lands Bureau, Kayode Sutton, said the decision to meet with the residents even though the Government has the ultimate rights to work on its scheme, was a demonstration that the present administration in the state\u00a0wants to carry everybody along.<\/p>\n

According to him, the state government has acted\u00a0with good intentions, to avert canal overflow, curtail\u00a0the social menaces associated with the areas as well as\u00a0create access in between the two schemes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is being done to avert canal overflow and the menaces associated with the environment. There is nothing wrong in doing what government did, no need to consult anybody to live up to its responsibilities\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

According to him, the government had last year advertised that all allottees to its scheme should\u00a0start developing their lands or have their allocations revoked. But, there were complaints of lack of government\u00a0presence in the past resulting in the absence of\u00a0basic infrastructures such as good roads, electricity among others,\u00a0to their sites.<\/p>\n

\u201c Government, he said is creating access in between its two schemes, which are; Magodo\u00a0and Magodo II\u00a0for allottees to move on\u00a0site. There is always a misconception about the Magodo scheme, but we have the Masterplan and know where Magodo scheme stopped\u201d. \u00a0He added.<\/p>\n

However, the Chairman of the MRDA, Mr. Kunle Eludire would not have it as he explained that “such work should not be done without carrying \u00a0residents along especially when the site provides a water plan for the estate and a buffer for environmental disaster in the area”.<\/p>\n

He noted that residents had planned to wall off the place to prevent miscreants from encroaching on the land before they noticed the caterpillar on the site.<\/p>\n

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Describing the move to link the estate with Omole, as unnecessary Eludire said , information gathered by the estate showed that government was only creating access for some allottees of land in the forest.<\/p>\n

He also alleged that the exercise would create more problems for residents, who might face environmental hazards.<\/p>\n

However, the Executive\u00a0Secretary of\u00a0Lagos Land Use and Allocation Committee (LUAC), Kayode Ogunnubi in a letter\u00a0to the chairman of the MRDA, stated that\u00a0the\u00a0exercise was a proactive measure\u00a0urgently taken after the order of Governor Akinwumi Ambode to remove shanties, bushes<\/a>, and others, that could pose a security threat to the metropolis.<\/p>\n

He stressed that the Lands Bureau is poised to keep the state lands safe and secure and also called for the cooperation of the estate on the exercise.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n

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