There was pandemonium on 22, Anuoluwapo Street, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State, on Saturday, after about 200 house seekers who paid various sums of money for accommodation discovered that they had been duped.
gathered that the landlady of the one-storey building, identified only as Kudirat, allegedly connived with an agent, Tunde Nojeemdeen, to perpetrate the fraud.
One of the victims, Oluwakemi Sodiq, said the prospective tenants paid sums ranging from N300,000 to N500,000. “The ACP told us that he was not aware of the matter. Till now, we have not heard anything; all the agents working for the developer are nowhere to be found and have all switched off their phones.”
“Please, we need the Lagos State Government to come to our aid. As I am talking to you, I am homeless; we are all homeless, the previous places where we stayed, we have been thrown out by our landlords.” Speaking on the incident, a building expert, Babatunde Ajibola, stated that it was important for house seekers to do due diligence before paying for any house.
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