A Mushin Customary Court in Lagos has threatened to seal off a building in Idi-Araba over poor sanitary condition.
It gave the landlord and his tenants a two-month deadline to make amend or the law would take its course.
The building located at 14, John St., according to a Mushin Council official, is also dilapidated.
The council had on April 20 charged the tenants and the landlord to court for failing to carry out necessary repairs, after several warnings.
The council’s Sanitation Officer, Raji Razak told the court that the roof of the house had caved in while, other facilities had also disintegrated.
Abayomi Ipaye, who presided over the court, frowned at the refusal of the tenants and the landlord to comply with the council’s order.
He gave the defendants -- Lukmon Ajala, Lukmon Adebayo and Sherifat Ajala – two months to rehabilitate the house or risk having it sealed off.
This court will evoke Sections 7 and 8 of the Public Health Laws of Lagos State and seal off the house if nothing is done about it,’’ the court’s president said.
A spokesman for the tenants, David Oga, had earlier told the court that they could not raise enough money for the repair of the house.
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