The serene capital of Enugu state was on Thursday ruffled as protest rocked the city over high cost of rent in the metropolis.

The protest, which was led by Comrade Kindness Jonah of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), took the demonstrators round some streets in Enugu chanting that high rent is stifling tenants in the city.

Speaking to journalists after the protest, the coordinator of the protest, Comrade Kindness Jonah, said the protest was against hike in rent in Enugu which is getting beyond the reach of the common man.

“By this demonstration today, we are saying that rents in Enugu are too high due to lawyers fee, agency fees.

“A landlord does not need agency.  A landlord does not need a lawyer.  A landlord should write his agreement in common English.  Go and buy seal in high court and put it there.

“Agree with the tenant and that is how it used to be before but now the lawyers came into the scenario and hiked the rent, so that a landlord whether he needs a lawyer or not will charge lawyers fee and agent fee,” he said and asked the governor to intervene.

“The governor must intervene because this is too much.  The House of Assembly should sit up and enact a law to reduce the rent increase,” he stated.