The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu has called on President Bola Tinubu to prevail on the Governor Lagos State, Babajid Sanwo-Olu to stop the demolition of property belonging to Igbo residents in Lagos.
Kalu made the call while speaking during the commissioning of projects in Aba, Abia State on Friday.
TheHintsNews reports that the Lagos State government claimed that the owners of the property have no valid documents.
‘They got ample time to regularise their papers when the state government declared last year a general amnesty, which was extended several times.
“The owners shunned the offer. When Physical Planning officials visited the complex, the gates were locked against them; they were beaten up. The police rescued them. When the government called the owners for talks, they said they would not come; they did not come,” the state government had said.
But the Deputy Speaker in a statement issued Saturday by his Media office said Tinubu should appeal to Sanwo-Olu to keep accommodating Igbos and allow them to rectify their documents instead of destruction.
He said: “Mr president, I also want to say that the destruction and demolition of the houses and offices of our brothers in Lagos makes our hearts bleed.
“Mr. President, for some of them who have not gotten the right documents, my plea to you is to appeal to the governor of Lagos state to keep accommodating our brothers and please allow them to rectify their documents instead of destruction.
“Let them come into the room and find a way and regularize some of these documents.
“It bleeds our heart that within this hard time that houses are being destroyed but I know that Mr President who cares for the Igbos, who made the Igbos one of the first commissioners of finance in his administration will listen to the hearing of the Igbos.”