Court threatens to seal off building over poor sanitary condition

The Mushin Customary Court, Lagos, on Tuesday threatened to seal off a building over its poor sanitary condition.

The President of the court, Abayomi Ipaye, gave the landlord two months to repair the building or be sanctioned.

He threatened that the court might evoke Sections 7 and 8 of the Public Health Law and the State Environmental Law 2004 if the landlord failed to comply with the order.

Mushin Local Government had on Sept. 2 charged the landlord, Mr Tunde Kareem and the caretaker, Leo Ejiogwu to court over the deplorable state of the house at 74, Ijaiye St., Mushin.

The council’s Sanitation Officer, Raji Razak, said that the house also lacked some basic facilities.

Kareem and Ejiogwu said a quit notice had been served on the 14 tenants in the house to pave way for necessary repairs.