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Why: Lagos State Government Warned Owners Of Uncompleted Buildings.

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Briefing Government House Correspondents after the State Security 
Council meeting, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, 
said the meeting discussed various issues regarding security situation, 
crime management, law enforcement and traffic management within the 
State and some other issues, with a way of finding lasting solution.Lagos State Government on Tuesday warned owners of uncompleted and 
abandoned buildings in the State to ensure that they expedite action 
towards the completion of such buildings or face sanctions in the 
eventuality that such buildings are occupied by miscreants or used for 
unlawful acts.He said the meeting examined the security implication of uncompleted 
and abandoned buildings and the increase in the number of people that 
are illegally residing in so many of the uncompleted properties around 
estates in Lagos.While warning owners of abandoned buildings, he said Government has 
resolved to enforce existing laws to the letter, and ensure that 
miscreants who utilise such uncompleted buildings to perpetrate unlawful
 activities are brought to book.“We’ve looked at areas where we are winning, areas where we need to 
make more efforts and especially at the security implication of the 
influx of people into Lagos State; the security implication of so many 
houses, uncompleted and abandoned buildings and the increase in the 
number of people that are getting into so many estates in Lagos”, 
Owoseni said.He said some of such buildings which are usually residential are often converted into lounges and clubs across the State.“Of course, decision has been. The owners of abandoned uncompleted 
buildings who do not have anything to do with them and who do nothing 
in securing them, thereby allowing miscreants who have been infiltrating
  Lagos to occupy and use them for illegal activities, that we are now 
going to address the situation to see how we can make owners of such 
properties to be accountable.The Commissioner reiterated the determination of the Police to 
continue to arrest miscreants while also making conscious efforts to 
engage and educate owners of such properties that, ignorantly employ 
some of the elements as security guards on the security risk involved.He also said that some of the owners of such abandoned properties are
 not aware that their properties are often used as safe havens after the
 illegal occupants have committed crimes because, after employing just 
one person as security guard, he soon brings many others to the 
premises.“…We should be able to reduce the unmitigated influx of miscreants in
 numbers as much as possible and get rid of them and also to make sure 
that they don’t cause any untoward incident for us in Lagos” he said.