Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) on Monday served squatters at Iganmu Under Bridge (Whitesand) a three-day removal notice of all illegal structures, trucks and vehicles in the area.
The chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, advised the owners of the illegal structures, abandoned trucks and shanties to immediately remove them as well as vacate the area within the stipulated date given to them by the state government.
According to Mr. Femi Moliki, Public Affairs Officer of the task force, Jejeloye, while appealing to traders, mechanics, and other squatters living under the bridge in clusters at Iganmu noted that government would enforce the three-day removal notice on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
He disclosed that the ‘Removal Notice’ became necessary in view of the rising incidences of traffic robberies around the area and environmental nuisance caused by the squatters.
The chairman noted that government was worried by the squalid environment and that it was serving as hideouts for criminals, who daily dispossessed road users of their valuables every now and then.
He added that the present nature of the environment allowed criminals to escape police arrest.
He added that the state government was committed to reducing the traffic incidence around Ijora and Apapa and therefore became important to remove every bottleneck to such policy.
He stated that the indiscriminate parking and abandonment of trucks on the road was inimical to that policy.
He warned the owners of abandoned trucks and vehicles, shanties, containers, kiosks to remove them from the area before the expiration of the deadline.
He added that that that was not the first ‘Notice of Removal’ served the occupiers.
“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s newly signed ‘Executive Order’ on traffic and sanitation declared zero tolerance for environmental abuse, illegal and indiscriminate dumping of refuse and defacing the environment.
“I can assure you that government would enforce this notice come this Thursday.”
