Fashola frowns at 2-year rent charge by landlords

Piqued by attitudes of landlords in Lagos State on rents, the state government has vowed to deal ruthlessly with any landlord who, despite legislative backing for one year rent, still demands two years rent from prospective tenants.

Governor Babatunde Fashola had threatened that any landlord found contravening the law on rentage would be made to face the music.

He particularly frowned at the situation where residents were asked to pay a two-year rent in advance in an economy where they receive their salaries in arrears. “We see it as a wrong when a society pretends that all is well when people are asked to put forward two years rent in advance when they are getting monthly wages in arrears; something is wrong. And if we are also comfortable with it there is something wrong with us,” he said.

Way to go governor.