Your Landlord does not have the right to stop you from gaining access to the apartment you paid for and he does not have the right to make any rule that can stop you or any other Tenants from having access to their apartment
Secondly, the Landlord has no Legal Power to restrct your movement,
This is a breach of your Fundamental Human Rights and it’s time to teach the Landlord some Lessons he or she refuses to learn from tender age. This by the way includes Landlord Association in an Estate, that are locking out members of the Community.
Tenants are not your Children or your Slaves to be controlled like they depend on you for feeding.
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT AS A TENANT OR RESIDENCE
Keep evidences of the message sent on phone or hardcopy
2) Meet with the Landlord or Resident’s Association Chairman and let him know about how the rule is a violation of your Fundamental Human Right and record the conversation for evidence purpose only.
ACTION
Any day you are locked out ,
1)Call him on phone and keep evidence that you called him and he did not pick up or was saying otherwise.
2) Sleep by the gutter on the Street and take pictures of yourself as evidence and move away .
3) Sleep at the entrance Gate and do the same thing as you don’t have the financial capacity to Lodge in a Hotel.
4) It’s time to SU£ the Landlord or Association and demand for damages in Millions of Naira and claim some of your items was stolen while you where sleeping outside on the Street. You can even do some photoshop bruises.
The Landlord will learn the hard way
As a Landlord you can make such rule, but it must be a flexible one in the sense that when they call you on phone or you create a channel of someone they can call to come help them open the Gate or you give each one their own spare key at their own expense so they can come in easily after locking the Gate against outsiders from entering into your property.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse