The Lagos State Government has demolished some shanties in Ajao Estate Canal bank, where tenants pay N100,000 annual rent.
This was made known in a statement by the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, shared on X.com on Friday.
Wahab wrote, “In continuation of concerted measures to reduce the scourge of environmental infractions and illegal encampment in public spaces, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI on Thursday demolished 138 shanties around the canal bank in Ajao Estate Canal where illegal occupants pays between N60,000 to N100,000 rent.”
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In continuation of concerted measures to reduce the scourge of environmental infractions and illegal encampment in public spaces, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI on Thursday demolished 138 shanties around the canal bank in Ajao Estate… pic.twitter.com/sD9gYG3cYG
— Tokunbo Wahab (@tokunbo_wahab) November 15, 2024
It was reported in May that Wahab said the government discovered an apartment under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants paid N250,000 annual rent.
According to the commissioner, the under-bridge apartment had 86 partitioned rooms, sized “10×10 and 12×10”.
Also earlier this week, no fewer than 94 social miscreants who have converted the rail tracks into their sleeping quarters have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce.
The miscreants were arrested during an enforcement operations conducted along Pen Cinema and Fagba railway corridor.
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Officials said the operations were aimed at dislodging illegal occupants of the rail tracks who have also built shanties along the railway corridor.
Akerele disclosed that the action was necessary to provide residents around Fagba, Agege, and Pen Cinema railway routes a reprieve after series of complaints concerning the activities of criminal elements residing there.
He said the miscreants had shown a blatant disregard for the state’s environmental and sanitary laws.
The chairman further noted that the presence of squatters along the rail corridor was not only unhealthy but also hazardous.
He issued a warning to the ejected squatters not to return to the rail corridor, which was designed solely for the passage of trains.
Some of the recalcitrant squatters attempted to resist the Agency’s actions.
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Akerele assured residents in Fagba, Agege, Pen Cinema, its environs, and train passengers that adequate patrols and regular surveillance would be carried out along the corridor to ensure that no squatters return to erect any shanties in the future.
He pledged to arrest and prosecute any individual or group attempting to return to the site.
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