A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court at Tinubu has ordered the takeover of a nine-storey building known as African Continental Bank building at No. 106/108 Broad Street, Lagos Island.
The magistrate’s order followed averments by a firm, Consolidated Discounts Limited, which identified itself as the bona fide owner of the building but said it was being occupied by “unknown persons” suspected to be street urchins, who “are engaging in reckless and indiscriminate storage of unidentifiable items and materials all within the property.”
The magistrate, in a certified true copy of his December 14, 2021 judgment seen by our correspondent, said he was convinced by the averments of the claimants, which were not disputed because the “persons unknown” did not show up in court despite evidence of being served with the suit and hearing notices.
“Basically, considering the alarming rampancy of incidence of collapse buildings and the accompanying avoidable human fatalities, a court faced with a case of these ominous and precarious characteristics certainly has a fundamental judicial responsibility to use its vantage position and the law as proactive instrument of social engineering.”
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