Burst pipe Floods Street while House No. 3 may be demolish

Rasheed Akotun Street 
By: Aisha Abd-Lateef

As the rehabilitation work of one of the major roads in the community progress from Igi Olugbin Street to Abule Okuta Road, another busy community road Rasheed Akotun Street a major pedestrian route two streets away is on the receiving end of the construction workers oversight as the street has been flooded with water from a multiple busted pipe at the construction site.  Commune Magazine, CM gathered that the engineering company while digging the road broke an underground water pipe in two different places thus flooding the work site and the water channel into the drainage system. Although, all adjoining streets water
drainage were able to contain and carry the water volume. However, further down the drainage carriage way on Rasheed Akotun street, whose drainage system were in serious disrepair could not contain the volume of water coming into it because they have low barriers and in some places small mound of soil, thus the water overflow the embankment. However, CM learnt that effort s were been made to contain the water flow by reinforcing the barriers with bagged sand.


Shops that lost their frontage
Since the road and drainage rehabilitation moved to Igbo Igunnu roundabout about two month ago, people living in the Abule Okuta area down to Ladi-Lac close to Abule Primary school in Alubarika Street have been suffering from shortage of pipe borne water due to damaged underground water pipe at Igbo Igunnu roundabout and now in Abule-Okuta Road. In a related the development, the reconstruction of drainage on Deji Aladejobi Street off Abule Okuta has resulted in many shops on the street losing their frontage. House No. 3 beside Celina hotel and an adjoining house on the same street may face the same predicament of having their frontage demolished. An unconfirmed report says that the frontage of the one storey building is marked for demolition because the developers failed to observe the required setbacks by law. According to CM findings, the state standard requirement setback for residential area for local or street road is six metres (6.56 yards) from the edges of the road and this was not adhere to by the developer. We will keep you posted on further development.

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House No 3 and another that might be demolish



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