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The Lagos State Government on Sunday gave a five days quit notice to different squatters under the Ijora Causeway bridge and Lagos Blue rail Line over head bridge in Ijora to remove all their shanties for constituting a danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or risk demolition and removal.

The quit notice was given by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources Tokunbo Wahab when he led a high powered team that included the Chairman, Special Intervention Squad on the Restoration of the Lagos Badagry Rail Corridor Clean-Up, ACP Bayo Sulaiman and Special Adviser on the Environment, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu on an inspection of the Ijora and the under bridge.

Wahab lamented the security risk that the occupation of underneath the blue rail line bridge by mini buses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants posed to the safe operation of the blue rail line service, saying government would not allow this to continue.

The Commissioner stated that the State Task Force on Special Offences would take full possession of the whole expanse of land under the Ijora Causeway Bridge and would be sustained by the state government.

He also gave a 24-hour quit notice to all those selling petroleum products under the Ijora Bridge to move all their trucks and containers or risk confiscation, adding that they posed enormous dangers to the infrastructure and human presence in the area.

The commissioner said no form of enforcement must be carried against distributors and sellers of styrofoam products until the expiration of the three weeks moratorium granted them.

He maintained that the three weeks window would allow all producers and distributors to mop up all the stock they have before the enforcement of the ban takes effect.

The Environment team was also at the Park View Estate in Ikoyi where a secondary collector has been infringed upon from the upstream by building across and fencing it off.

He directed the Drainage Enforcement and Compliance Department to serve proper notices to all the property owners asking them to give unfettered access to the state to monitor its secondary collectors and remove any impediments if any.

Wahab said monitoring and enforcement of the laws on the environment would be an everyday affair and that this explained why the ministry had picked up from where it stopped last year.

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Hmmm....though times ahead

Anything legal to have sanity in Lagos.

Final squatting moments. They should enjoy till the last day

Lagos s'd be calming down

E don red.

With the suffocating prices of rent in Lagos, I see a great number of lagosians relocating to the shelters under the bridges. I see them supporting Tinubu from under the bridge amidst Chronic poverty as hunger.

This I have seen.

Space booked

Ite si wa ju Eko.

🥺🥺🥺🥺

Nigeriaaa1960:
Lagos s'd be calming down

Be calming down to accommodate all manner of nefarious persons?

Same should be extended to Agege and Mushin along the corridor.

Too much pepper by Lagos government o, after driving people out of market locations and they are managing under , Blue Line Bridges, now you want them to vacate Lagos Kpatakpata

Suffocating the poor is the joy of this government 😂

Rich 10-0 poor with a clean sheet

Ijora dey rotten sha 🤧


Anytime I pass through there from work I just wonder

Eko o ni baje

obinna58:
Suffocating the poor is the joy of this government 😂

Better upgrade your life, reject poverty and embrace prosperity or go back to your village.
Lagos is not an IDP camp.

Throwback:
Be calming down to accommodate all manner of nefarious persons?

most of those people if not all are Your people

It isn't a must to stay in Lagos. It would've been better for some people to go back home, instead of rotting away in Lagos.

RichDad1:
Better upgrade you turn life and embrace prosperity or go back to your village

Village of bandits😂 they’ll return as bandits to kidnap the city people

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Provide houses for them

Good development. When you visit developed countries, there are no squatters under the bridge.

It can also constitute criminal activities and the risk of fire.

It is folly to build infrastructure worth billions and let it go in flames because of squatters.

Another smart way of looking at is that if Lagos transportation improves, there would be less pressure on accommodation in Lagos because people can easily commute from adjoining towns and states around Lagos.

Red line is coming onboard, hopefully more in the future.

What Lagos can do is start generating its power.

obinna58:
Suffocating the poor is the joy of this government 😂

Rich 10-0 poor with a clean sheet

Obinna, it's better to soak garri and sleep well in a mud house than sleep under the bridge in Lagos.

If the city is not working for you, go back to the village. The stress is not worth it brother.

Ok

Nigeriaaa1960:
Lagos s'd be calming down

By allowing destitute and illegal activities under those bridges abi?

It is not by force to live in Lagos. There are 36 states and the FTC in Nigeria.

Honestey:
Too much pepper by Lagos government o, after people them out of market locations and they are managing under , Blue Line Bridges, now you want them to vacate Lagos Kpatakpata

Yes, no be by force to live in lagos