‘How I Started Living At The Dolphin Estate Underbridge’

One of the squatters at the now dismantled Dolphin Estate Underbridge apartments, has narrated how he found himself living there.

The man is 75-year-old Ghanaian, Usman Hassan, who also clarified that the landlord did not collect any rent from him as a person.

A teacher at Remo Divisional High School, Ogun State before life became challenging to the point of making him relocate to Lagos, said living at the Dolphin Estate Underbridge was not a decision taken in pleasant circumstances

He told Daily Trust:  “The man who owned the place doesn’t force people, the engineers working in this company (referring to a company around) begged him for their workers to stay nearby and when they need them for work, they’ll enter the place.

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“I don’t know exactly how much he collects from them, but personally he didn’t collect anything from me. For people paying, whether it’s N250,000 or not, I don’t know.”

“People found solace in the under-bridge apartments because “town is hard and they could not afford rent within Lagos.

“You see, conditions are hard for people in the country and not everyone can afford houses in the town. I have been in this country since 1981 in Ogun State. I was a teacher at Remo Divisional High School for about 11 years before I came to Lagos.

“No work in town to survive on. This man pitied my condition and gave me space here (under the bridge). So, when this thing happened, I took my belongings and I am going again.”

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Well, everything is in the hand of God. Sleeping under the bridge is dangerous but the condition of the country made people resort to this.

“As you are seeing me, I don’t have a dime in my pocket.”

The Dolphin Estate Underbridge came under focus last Wednesday, after news broke the Lagos State Ministry of The Environment had uncovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10 and 12×10, where tenants were being charged as much as N250, 000.

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