Thriving communities exist in most partially completed buildings and in some completed structures that have remained in the property market for a long time. Owners are sometimes pushed to the threshold of using violence to remove illegal occupants of their property, writes Bennett Oghifo
Only owners of uncompleted buildings or properties put up for let/lease know how difficult it is to keep squatters at bay. It is the same way it is difficult to remove weaver birds from a tree. Recently, the owner of a storey building at Airways area of Apapa, Lagos had to remove the roof and windows to evict a thriving colony of stragglers occupying the building that was put in the property market by an estate surveyor.
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