Photos: House tenants homeless as house buyer suddenly shows up in Surulere

There was confusion on Monday March 2nd at 3, Ladele Dada Street in Surulere Lagos, when policemen chased out the occupants of the house following the sale of the property by the daughter of the owner of the house without his consent
According to the buyer of the house, the first daughter of the landlord, a woman named Mrs. Ololo had sold the house to him about 15 years ago without the knowledge of her father. So immediately the man died, he approached her to claim ownership of the house. They even went to court and he won the case. After winning the case, he took police men to the property to take possession rendering tenants who didn’t even know all these was going on, homeless…

One of the oldest tenants of the house said;

“Police and some other people stormed the building around 10:00am on 2nd March, 2015″. They said they are on court order to evacuate tenants out of the house as the house ownership has been transferred to the buyer.

I have been living here since 1984 and in fact the first receipt I received from the landlord is still with me, the buyer just showed up and threw us out without any prior notice.” he said