Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola has ordered the immediate relocation of waste sorting activities under the Oyebanji Bridge to Adeniji Adele on Lagos Island.

Fashola, who inspected the regeneration work at Ijora-Apapa axis and the bridge said, although the people under the Oyebanji Bridge were engaged in useful economic activities of sorting refuse for recycling, the activity should not be carried out under the bridge.

Fashola added that the people under the Oyebanji Bridge would be made to work with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) so that they could do their sorting at the recycling plant on the Lagos Mainland.

He said, “the state government wanted to clear up the place. The degradation here is like what we saw in Ijora many months back and we have cleaned up Ijora. We want to clean up this place.

“But unlike those who were degrading the land at Ijora, who were emptying oil waste into the ground water, these people are sorting refuse, so they have very useful economic activity. So, we are going to make them work with LAWMA because we have a recycling plant on the Mainland of Lagos where all the sorting of waste can take place and be passed on to the end users.”

The governor, who disclosed that the people had already agreed to move said, “I think the process now is how we move them and how we take possession, clean up the place and also free up traffic here.”

In addition to cleaning up the area, he said the state government’s action would also help to free traffic on the Oyebanji Junction of the Adeniji Adele Bridge, stressing that the buses that park on this bridge should not be there.