We’ve launched in Lekki: the estate capital of Lagos

Lekki does not rest. It is a peninsula packed with estates and gated streets, each running its own version of a security log book, its own rent roll, its own WhatsApp group. The sheer number of gates is the point: get it right across Lekki and you can get it right anywhere in Nigeria. So we started where the volume is highest.

Why Lekki, why first

Every one of those estates runs its own version of a security log book. Residents ride from Ikate to Sangotedo and want to send a visitor code from the back of the car. Landlords manage six flats across three estates from a WhatsApp group called “Lekki Landlords 2.” The single biggest unsolved problem here is not collecting rent. It is keeping track of who paid which rent on which unit while the gate is also asking about a visitor.

What Jarakey does for a Lekki property manager

• Visitor codes that scale. The gate man verifies a code in two seconds without calling you at midnight.
• Rent collection that does not require pleading. The reminder goes out, the bank alert lands, you find out from a notification, not a meeting.
• Maintenance logs the next tenant can actually see. No more handing over a property with secrets.
• Per-unit bill routing. Rent goes to the landlord. Service charge goes to the property pool. Both happen on the same Paystack tap.

The estate we keep pointing at

Lekki Phase One is not really one estate. It is a large scheme made up of dozens of streets, closes, and gated estates, each with its own gate, its own association, and its own way of keeping records. There is no single log book or single rent roll for the whole of it, and that is exactly the point: property here is managed close to the ground, one estate and one property at a time. None of that is automatic. It is the result of years of paper, meetings, and people who care. Jarakey takes the parts that no longer need a person and gives them a button.

On a Phase One unit, this looks like: visitor signs in once at the gate, the code goes inactive, no one re-writes the log book. The tenant pays rent through the app, the landlord gets a notification, the property manager sees the receipt update the rent roll, the resident’s tax document for next year writes itself.

How residents in Lekki use it

• Prepaid power tokens that arrive before NEPA returns.
• A property chat that lives in one place and survives a phone change.
• Rent receipts you can pull up at the bank without making three phone calls.
• One-time codes for the cleaner, the dispatch rider, and the friend visiting from Ibadan.

How Jarakey holds up in Lekki traffic

Cached visitor codes work for 24 hours offline, so the gate keeps moving even when 4G dies. The dashboard is mobile-first because the dashboard usually opens on a phone, not a laptop. One sign-in covers every property a manager runs, so the question of which app is which never comes up at a stoplight.