Tenants groan under exorbitant house rents in South-East
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•Lawyers, agents contribute to rise in rent —Onitsha landlord
•Govt can’t regulate rents, they didn’t regulate prices of building materials—Okolo
•It’s fraud for lawyer to collect legal fee from tenants —Comr. Igbokwe
By Anayo Okoli, Vincent Ujumadu, Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Chinedu Adonu, Peter Okutu, Chinonso Alozie & Ikechukwu Odu
ENUGU — SHELTER is one of the basic needs of life. Yet it is very hard to get this essential need of life. In the South East, rent is exorbitant and way out of the reach of the poor.
The low income earners and even the middle class struggle to secure decent apartments.