Jos residents express frustration as cut-throat rent worsens living conditions

Residents of Jos, the Plateau State capital, person expressed vexation implicit the astronomical summation of location rent.

Concerned residents, who spoke to DAILY POST, said location rent successful Jos has gone retired of the scope of mean income earners.

A resident, who simply identified himself arsenic Jeff, narrated the ordeal helium faced erstwhile helium was transferred from Lagos to Jos, to caput the caller subdivision of his company.

He was afloat of joy, arsenic helium had the accidental to spell backmost home, distant from the brainsick bustle of Lagos. As idiosyncratic from Plateau, helium had the volition of settling down successful Jos. He had been told that beingness successful the Tin City was astatine a dilatory gait and the outgo of surviving was manageable for an mean person, particularly location rents, compared to Lagos, wherever landlords were making beingness hellhole for tenants and location seekers.

However, Jeff got the daze of his beingness erstwhile helium got to Jos successful January and decided to prosecute an cause to get him a two-bedroom flat successful Rayfield and was told helium had to cough up N2.5m for a year’s rent.

According to Jeff, helium was amazed erstwhile helium saw the breakdown which included bureau fees, caution fees, ineligible fees, and different sundry fees helium could not explain.

He decided to effort different country distant from the highbrow areas and ended up successful Rantya but ...