The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration says it will embark on weeklong monitoring and enforcement against government residential buildings’ conversion to commercial purposes.

The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, said this on Tuesday in a statement.

Mr. Salako claimed that residents had converted residential government buildings to commercial.

The affected housing schemes include the Lekki Peninsula Scheme I and Magodo Residential Scheme I and II.

The commissioner said government housing schemes ought to remain residential with provision for services as planned.

He said some residents had bastardised the schemes.

Mr. Salako added that a team from the ministry would soon begin the monitoring and enforcement for the return of the state residential estates to their original plans.

According to him, if the act was not checked, “the future would spell doom for the carefully-designed upper-income residential schemes.”

Mr. Salako said residents in the affected estates had complained to the state government, seeking redress.

He noted that the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development had met with the estates’ residents severally to restore sanity.

“It is noteworthy that engagements with Magodo Phases I and II Residents Association produced the Revised Magodo Scheme I and II, which has since become effective,” he said.

The commissioner said the state government would not tolerate indiscriminate conversion.

“Our monitoring and enforcement team will be visiting all other government schemes for similar action in due course.

“I, hereby, urge that every part of the state should take a cue from this by desisting from the undue conversion of properties without the approval of the appropriate authorities,” he said. 

(NAN)