NewsNigeriaPoliticsKwara Govt Targets Unlawful Conversion Of Residential Quarters For Commercial Purposes

Owners of residential quarters that have converted their dwellings for commercial use in Ilorin, the state capital have been issued with quit notice to revert their plans.

The General Manager, Town Planning Authority of the Kwara State Geographic Information Service, AbdulAkeem Abdulsalam, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Ilorin, said the action is in line with the nationwide urban renewal project being implemented by the Federal Government across the states of the federation.

“Enforcement will commence very soon after the affected residents along some major roads in the state capital have been served with the warning notices. They should expect that notice.”

Prompted for the time when the enforcement would occur, he said “it could be anytime,” he said.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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