Lagos Gov, Fashola Rakes In Over N400 Million From Forced Levies On Jakande Estate Residents

There is a saying that you don’t know what people will become until they are in a place of authority. This may be said about the current Governor of Lagos State, Raji Fashola, who has suddenly turned from the once darling Governor most people of the state, especially the elite take him to be, to someone the people will do anything to oppose.
Recent findings revealed that Fashola sometime ago put himself in the bad books of retired civil servants in the state and people living in the low-cost housing estates built by Alhaji Lateef Jakande across the state while he was the governor of the state.
Fashola, we gathered, approached the residents of these estates that were built in more than 12 different areas across the state, and accused them of not making complete payment of flats they’ve been living in for more than 20 years. He ordered that they would have to make a payment of N10,000 each to the coffers of the state government within a stated period or his administration would take over the flats from them and chase them to the streets.
Though his pronouncement caught most of the people by surprise, all had to make the payment or lose their homes to the governor, who is hell-bent on following up on his order, not minding the fact that many of those involved are retired civil servants of the state whose payment for the flats were deducted from their salary by the then Jakande government.
Even after he had forced residents of Jakande Estates all over the state to make the forceful payment which runs into hundreds of billions of naira, according to the simple calculation based on the number of blocks and flats in each of the estates scattered across the state, some of which are as stated below:
Abesan Low-Cost Housing Estate is the largest of all Jakande-built estates and it has more than 1,000 blocks of 6 flats each, which makes it over 6,000 flats that paid N10,000 each from the Ipaja area. This means Fashola would have raked in N60 million from the retired civil servant in that estate.
Isolo Low-Cost Housing Estate over 400 blocks of 6 flats each = 2,400 flats multiplied by N10,000 =
N24 million
Agege Low-Cost Housing Estate over 600 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,600 flats multiplied by N10,000 =
N36 milion
Amuwo-Odofin Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 = N30 million
Ketu-Alapere Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 = N30 million
Ikorodu Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 =
N30 million
Epe Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 =
N30 million
Badagry Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 =
N30 million
Ogba Low-Cost Housing Estate over 600 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,600 flat multiply by N10, 000 =
N36 million
Iba Low-Cost Housing Estate over 700 blocks of 6 flats each = 4,200 flat multiply by N10, 000 =
N42 million
Adeniji-Adele Low-Cost Housing Estate over 500 blocks of 6 flats each = 3,000 flat multiply by N10, 000 = N30 million
The amount he was able to force out of the residents of Jakande Estates was said to be more than N400 million, after which he later ordered them to paint the houses or he would paint it for them three times the normal cost they would paint it themselves.