Homeowners deploy scavengers to sites as FHA continues demolition 

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 Scavengers at one of the affected building sites in FESTAC, Lagos.

Amid frustrations triggered by their demolished buildings, home owners on road 91 and other parts of FESTAC Phase II, Abule Odo, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos at the weekend, engaged services of scavengers on sites to sort out critical building materials like iron rods, roofing sheet and others, left after the demolition by the authority.

“The people that escaped the demolition are those who built their houses years before the government asked the people to stop developing. So, if the people had listened to the government when they were asked to stop building, this wouldn’t have happened. The people didn’t wait and fell victim to Omo Onile. It’s a different thing to have money and another thing to know how to invest; imagine a businessman running his business and some call him that there is land somewhere but didn’t make findings but pay for the land. I feel their pain.”
 
He added: “Most of the landlords are not in Nigeria. The people that should be punished are the Omo Onile who sell government lands to people. I can’t really blame the government but this is not the right way to go. Most of the people affected are not the landlords but the residents.    
   
“People paid millions for apartments and were thrown out.  Some people renewed their rents two weeks ago. Someone just got an apartment and brought his belongings but couldn’t move in because he came late. The next call he received was a call to remove what he brought because the house would be going down.     
 
“I have heard people say that this is a targeted hatred towards a certain group but I refuse to believe that. But we know that the government may not develop the place in the next 15 years or may sell the land to a person who is connected.” 

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