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Residents of Magodo estate under the support of the Magodo Resident Development Association (MRDA) have protested plans by the Lagos State government to create an access road through Block 89 A, Magodo Extension Magodo, Lagos.

The state government recently deployed a heavy earth-moving caterpillar to clear the bushes and shanties along the end of Ashiru Shittu Street of Magodo scheme.

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Before now, works at the channelization of a canal between Magodo brooks and Omole Phase 1, have created a disharmony between residents and the Government leading to temporary stoppage 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 near the area and this would create environmental hazards for the residents, they argued but the government has started engaging the residents on its plan for the area, which has been turned to hideouts for criminals and miscreants.

The Head of Public Relations and Complaints, Lagos 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 wants to carry everybody along.

According to him, the state government has acted with good intentions, to avert canal overflow, curtail the social menaces associated with the areas as well as create access in between the two schemes.

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“It 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”, he added.

According to him, the government had last year advertised that all allottees to its scheme should start developing their lands or have their allocations revoked. But, there were complaints of lack of government presence in the past resulting in the absence of basic infrastructures such as good roads, electricity among others, to their sites.

“ Government, he said is creating access in between its two schemes, which are; Magodo and Magodo II for allottees to move on site. There is always a misconception about the Magodo scheme, but we have the Masterplan and know where Magodo scheme stopped”.  He added.

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  residents along especially when the site provides a water plan for the estate and a buffer for environmental disaster in the area”.

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.

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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.

He also alleged that the exercise would create more problems for residents, who might face environmental hazards.

However, the Executive Secretary of Lagos Land Use and Allocation Committee (LUAC), Kayode Ogunnubi in a letter to the chairman of the MRDA, stated that the exercise was a proactive measure urgently taken after the order of Governor Akinwumi Ambode to remove shanties, bushes, and others, that could pose a security threat to the metropolis.

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.

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Source: The Guardian

 

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