High rent: Hamzat urges young Lagos workers to live with parents, relatives

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, has urged young workers struggling with precocious rental costs to see surviving with parents oregon relatives, oregon sharing accommodation, alternatively than committing themselves to lodging they cannot comfortably afford.

Hamzat said young people, peculiarly those astatine the opening of their careers, should marque lodging decisions based connected their net and wide fiscal capacity.

He spoke on Thursday during a question-and-answer league with Nigeria Info FM portion responding to concerns astir however a 22-year-old earning N100,000 monthly could spend a self-contained flat oregon mini-flat that costs astir N1m successful yearly rent.

The lawman politician said young Nigerians should not consciousness compelled to determination into autarkic accommodation instantly aft securing employment, particularly erstwhile their income cannot enactment the cost.

“Don’t fto america misunderstand ourselves arsenic a people. We are taste people. Do you understand? So, if I commencement enactment arsenic a young idiosyncratic and I’m not married, a batch of america unrecorded with our parents. A batch of america unrecorded with our cousins,” Hamzat said.

He cited surviving arrangements successful different countries, including Turkey, arsenic an illustration o...