Ambode govt under fire from Lagos residents

Owners of demolished property at the Lagoon View Estate, Ibeshe,
Igbogbo-Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu, have
concluded plan to take the Lagos State Government to court to seek
redress.

Mr Victor Armstrong, one of the affected residents of the estate, made
this known to newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday.

Armstrong noted that property pulled down in the estate were worth
over N2 billion, adding that other "land grabbers'' would be joined in
the suit.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the property were
demolished in 2017.

Armstrong said that the owners of the property decided to seek redress
in court after they had reported the matter to the Lagos State
Ministry of Physical Planning.

He explained that the affected people had earlier written a petition
to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode and thereafter, led a protest to his office
without getting any response.

Armstrong said that apart from the petition written to the governor,
they also wrote a petition to the state's Attorney General, Mr Adeniji
Kazeem.

He said that they also sought government's intervention on the issue
at the Citizens Mediation Centre.

"We contacted a lawyer and wrote a petition to the Lagos State
Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and copied the Attorney General of the
state.

"We also wrote a letter to the police commissioner and the state House
of Assembly. Unfortunately, Gov. Ambode did nothing on the issue and
never responded to the letters.

"When we led a protest to his office no one attended to us and we have
been suffering,'' Armstrong said.

According to him, the only option is to seek redress in court since
the Citizens Mediation Centre has been asked to hands off the matter.

"The next legal step to take is for us to go to court and we have
filed our petition and we will meet in court soon," he said.