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Leadership<\/a> (Abuja)<\/p>\n

George Okojie<\/p>\n

18 May 2011<\/p>\n

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Lagos \u2014 The cordial relationship between the Lagos State government and commercial banks operating in the state may soon go sour, as the government is poised to demolish over 1,000 illegal structures serving as branches of the banks.<\/p>\n

Fielding questions from newsmen yesterday in Lagos, the state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, Mr. Francisco Abosede, revealed that out of 1,653 branches of banks operating in the state, only 100 have approved building plan, while 1,325 are still undergoing evaluation.<\/p>\n

Abosede, who lamented that the banks took the state physical planning laws for granted, added that the state government would not hesitate to appropriately sanction any of the affected banks.<\/p>\n

He said: “Sanctioning the erring banks would be misunderstood by the public and international community, but we urged the management of the bank that operate branches that lacks approved plan to comply with the State Model City Development Law of 2009 and the State Urban and Regional Planning Law of the state.<\/p>\n

“If we are to go after over a thousand bank branches that fail to comply with developmental law in the state, what message would we be sending to the international community? They will not look at it from the angle of enforcing the law, rather they would look at it from an economic perspective.”<\/p>\n

Abosede explained that the primary motive of enacting the state planning laws of 2009 and 2010 was to firm up all extant regulations on building control to ensure more professionalism on the part of staff, quality of building and wilful compliance with physical planning and building control regulations throughout the state.<\/p>\n

He said since the introduction of these laws, the state had witnessed a better planned environment, a healthier condition of living and an increase in life expectancy, noting that more emphasis will be placed on the conduct of officials of the state Building Control Agency and strict compliance with the development permit to ensure the aim of the planning laws is not defeated.<\/p>\n

The commissioner added that 7,393 building contraventions were detected across the state in 2010 alone, while 162 illegal structures were demolished, adding that out of the 12,804 building permit applications received the previous year,<\/p>\n

7,600 had been processed and approved while 5,204 are still undergoing processing for approval, even as 90 lay out plans submitted and 31 had been approved.<\/p>\n

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