Landlord Removes Roof, Renders Popular Gospel Music Artiste Homeless

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

                                                  
A popular female gospel music artiste, Charity Ngozi Okoye, has become homeless after her landlord, Engr. Francis Ikenna Nwosu, popularly known as Mazi, allegedly hired some workers who tampered with the roofing sheets and her apartment got flooded.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that apart from the fact that Charity is now homeless; all her belongings inside the apartment were destroyed after a heavy downpour owing to the removed roofing sheets.

The incident happened at 2A Aboyemi Adewale Street off Bayo Oyewole Street in Ago Palace, Okota area of Lagos, where she had rented an apartment.

According to the Charity, the landlord claimed that it was his own style of quitting his tenants because he does not have time for court processes which take longer time.

Narrating what happened, Charity said she rented the apartment in 2018 for one year which elapsed on March 2019 but was no longer interested in retaining the tenancy because of flooding. She said when she rented the apartment during the dry season; the landlord deceived her until the rainy season set in. She then discovered that the whole compound was usually flooded including her own apartment.
Charity said barely few weeks that she moved into the apartment, she slipped and broke her leg because she did not know that her apartment was flooded by the time she returned from work. She was reportedly hospitalised for about six months after the incident.
Despite the trauma she passed through, the landlord was not ready to work on the flooding; she then mentioned to him that she will look for another accommodation and was not ready to renew her tenancy.

“Since then, he has been making trouble; threatening to deal with me and insisted that I must move immediately whereas I have not gotten another place before he then removed the roofing sheets and my belongings were destroyed” she said.

Charity narrated that aside the trauma, the landlord still went to the Ago Palace Police Division and reported that she was threatening him asking the Police to arrest her. But when she got to the police station and the police officers heard what happened, the DCO was shocked and ordered the landlord to go and fix the roof of her apartment. The Police however, were silent on her belongings that got destroyed because of his purported influence in the area.

When our correspondent contacted the landlord, Mazi Nwosu, on the allegations, he promised to respond but never did after repeated calls to him. The DPO at Ago Palace was not around when P.M.EXPRESS reporter visited the station to know what the Police intends to do about Charity’s belongings that were destroyed as a result of Mazi Nwosu’s action.