Searching for accommodation in Lagos? Please get one with parking space
It appears the all-for-profit culture that probably made many Lagos landlords build houses bereft of parking spaces may be putting their tenant’s pocket at risk.
Or what else could be put at risk if hoodlums decide to do a let’s-break-some-windscreen panorama like they did in Lagos about 24 hours ago?
Local media reports say no less than 200 vehicles were dented while competing gangs damaged private property in Ilupeju, and in the broad light of day.
It’s safe to say most of those automobiles were commercial vehicles but personal cars had their share of the dent too.
“They broke the vehicle’s windscreen and left me in debt,” a man whose golf car was damaged during the Ilupeju incident told local media.
…and the phenomenon is not new.
In areas like Iwaya, Bariga and Shomolu, hoodlums seem to have a let’s-dent-their-cars timetable. A Lagos resident told Newsroom the safest place to park a car around these areas is inside the University of Lagos. Just imagine.
While it’s quite easy to fixate on the immediate problem of jobless energetic youths whose strengths are being diverted into committing social vices, the event that happened at Ilupeju could be pointing to another problem accumulated over the years.
We have not really done much in telling wannabe landlords and “developers” the kind of houses that can be built, and where.
Someone buys a land somewhere in Limbo and all he thinks about is erecting apartments and all, without a parking space within the gates.
With the continual surge in demand for housing in Lagos, perhaps due to our failure to make other states of Nigeria “habitable,” parking spaces seem to have become a threat to prospective Lagos landlords who seem only preoccupied with what accrues from monthly rent.
A tenant in Iwaya told Newsroom, Friday, his room sits on a space originally set aside for a well. That’s something.
Perhaps you don’t have a car today. But if you plan on having one, you’ve got to think of the kind of landlord to deal with.
Car-owning tenants who opt for accommodations, where parking spaces are a taboo, may have now been committed into the merciless embrace of thugs who seem on the rise. Where do we go from here?
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