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Tears flowed freely on Friday, when 13 buildings at the Rockview Estate in Ajao Estate were pulled down by the Lagos state government. The buildings, the state claimed were posing severe threat to Lagosians in the state.

The authority had accused owners of the affected structures of erecting without obtaining construction approvals from the Federal Government through Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and the state government.

Also, the owners, they said built their houses on pipelines channelled to transport aviation fuel to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja.

General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Gbolahan Oki said: “Nobody in his right thinking mind will go and buy a plot on a pipeline and build on the pipeline. Due consultations and communications have been made with enough time of over eight years, 2016, given to the occupants of the affected buildings to evacuate the structures.

“The agency is happy Lagos State Government is stepping into the issue after several warnings in attempt to stop the constructions of buildings which were not heeded to by those it called encroachers, who stole from the land of the airport.”