OPIC Estate Residents Petition Ogun Govt Over Violation Of Building Regulations

…threaten to seek legal redress

OPIC Estate Residents Association and Greenfield Estate, Ayo Balogun Zone have petitioned the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Ogun state over the violation of building regulations in the Estate.

The petition titled; “ Re: Attempts To Defeat And Rubbish Your Ministry’s Vision, Mission And Policy Thrust In OPIC Estate, Isheri North – Urgent Need To Save Our Souls” was jointly signed by the chairman, Ayo Balogun and Secretary, Ayoola Oladapo respectively.

In the petition, four of the residents of the estate were accused of attempting to alter the building regulations which according to them will be inimical to the residents health and well-being.

The residents said that they were particularly irked that despite several meetings held with Mr Arowolo who was feverishly building a school on Ayo Balogun Avenue instead of a block of residential flats for which approval was granted by the State Government, he refused to see reasons with them and instead boasting of his connection with the Ministry’s officials.

Listed in the action inimical to the security and orderliness in the estate were Mr Olabanji Akinnola who is alleged to own an Oven Baked Car Factory at the entrance of the street, (Ayo Balogun), a mini car factory where car bodies are worked on and baked with attendant airborne chemical spreading to the nearby residence.

The residents said that the effect of the chemical may prove lethal to their health because research has shown that malignant and other terminal diseases could be contracted through inhaling the deadly chemical.

Also, Mrs Falomo who owns an Event Center/Warehouse. Mr Aderinde Aro is alleged to be converting a two storey building expected to be a six flats structure, but housing 9 flats. It’s built without adequate parking space for residents/occupants.

The estate maintained that it had passed resolutions to seek legal redress to stop the illegal structures, but that they believed alerting the Ministry on the ongoing illegal structures within the estate should be the first step before taking legal action.

The association also attached pictorial evidences of the violation of building regulations with the petition.