By HEADLINENEWS.NEWS correspondent
Ayodele Ademiluyi, a legal practitioner and member of the House of Representatives representing the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency has issued a warning to the government of Lagos State over the demolition of informal dwellings at Eti-Osa constituency. He also threatened legal action against the government over the 48 hours vacation notice issued to illegal occupants of Ikoyi Towers.
Ademiluyi, in a statement released Sunday, called the decision by the government “illegal,” stating that Ikoyi Towers is a property of the Federal Government and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the Lagos state government.
He berated the Lagos state government for attributing inhabitants at the Tower as squatters stating that their intention to reside there is as a result of the state’s housing costs.
“The supposed the “squatters” are my poor and homeless constituents, who cannot afford exorbitant rent rates in the affluent quarters of my Constituency and who are forced to take housing in the abandoned Ikoyi Towers as shown by the eviction of the dwellers under the Osborne Bridge to Dolphin Towers,” he noted in the press statement
Ademiluyi accuses the state government of having a “ulterior and sinister motive” for its decision made evident by the visit of Tokunbo Wahab, the Lagos state government’s commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources who inspected some identified sites, including the abandoned Federal Government property, Ikoyi Towers.