SPECIAL REPORT: How Ooni Of Ife's Ilubirin Luxury Apartment Is Causing Flooding And Water Stagnation On Lagos Island
A shop owner, whose shop is opposite the blackened water, said:"This has been a burden for quite a while now. When it starts, it will come with force and then recede. This area used to have a mosque where people could pray in, and on Sundays, kids would play freely. Parts of the street were also used for social events.
"We have been calling on the attention of the people we voted for that they should come and do something here because it is not good."When SaharaReporters reached the Local Government Chairman, Lagos Island Olusi Tijani Adetoyoshe, at the Lagos Island Local Government Office, he assigned the Local Government Supervisor on Environment Mr. Eletu Moshood, who worked on the project, to talk to us.
He then went on to reel out efforts by the local government to clean up the drainage:"Since we assumed this government two years ago, in December 2017 we embarked on evacuation efforts in that same area, Ojo Giwa... Also in February 2018, we went back to that axis to evacuate the drainage...in August we still went back and started from Ile Wura down to Jankara, Idumagbo Avenue, Colins, Onola and Bombata Market and evacuated the drainage that was blocked.
Ilubirin is a sprawling Luxury Apartment contracted to Messrs First Investment Property Company , which SaharaReporters authoritatively confirmed is owned by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. It was obvious at this point that the promise of tomorrow might be rebuffed again so SaharaReporters went to the neighbouring settlement and boarded a fishing boat.The crew navigated it's way until Ilubirin was in full view, along with the extent of damage it had caused to the drainage system of Lagos Island, the eco system around Ilubirin as well as Marine Wild Life.
Ooh ... the debts that he is owing contractors nkor ?