Man Owes Blind Landlord 3-years’ Rent, Sets Building Ablaze

A tenant has thrown decorum to the wind as
he owed his blind landlord three years and
six months’ rent after which he set the
house ablaze, in Ajegunle area of Lagos
State.

LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that the tenant,
identified as Dominic Udo was owing his
blind landlord rent.

The landlord, identified as Richard was said
to have reported the matter at the Citizen
Mediation Centre, in Amukoko.

Both Udo and Richard were invited to the
centre, on August 5, 2015.

On August 7, 2015, Udo was alleged to have
put fire on a candle and left. The fire ignited
his room in the evening but was put out by
residents in the area.

The residents suspected that Udo would
have done that based on the fact that the
landlord took him to the centre after which
he promised to quit the residence.

Richard, who wanted to eject the tenant
from the building situated at Young Lane, for
his defiant behaviour went to Ajegunle
police station and made a report, yesterday.

A resident, Mama Nkiru said, “The tenant
had no human sympathy. How could a man,
who is a commercial motorcycle rider live in
a house for over three years without paying
his landlord a dime? It is wickedness. He
should be ashamed of himself. We are
suspecting that he set the building ablaze
himself because the landlord took him to
the Citizen Mediation Centre. “