The Lagos state government has concluded plans to relocate residents of the 900 housing units at Adeniji- Adele on Lagos Island because the estate is sited under water.
Speaking on the plan to relocate the residents, the special adviser to the state governor on e-GIS and Urban Development, Dr. Olajide Babatunde, said the occupants of the housing units shall be relocated in batches and the state has already started the relocation by providing accommodation for some of the occupants of the estate whose building collapsed.
He said this at a press briefing held at Alausa, Ikeja which was part of activities marking the first year of the second term of administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu.
He noted that 98 occupants of the housing unit would first be relocated, adding that the present administration cannot complete the relocation exercise in its tenure because of the financial burden.
“Adeniji Adele housing unit is under water, what we are doing is first build the building we are going to put the residents into. We have got land close to the estate in the same Adeniji Adele.
“We have free land just by it in Adeniji-Adele. We will develop that land for about 98 people and put them in the new houses. Then where those 98 people were taken away from will be demolished and raise it to the level of the other one, and build new housing units for another set of people. Then we will bring another set of people into that one until we finish it.”
