LAGOS ISSUES FOUR-DAY RELOCATION DEADLINE TO SQUATTERS, ILLEGAL MOTOR PARKS IN OBALENDE
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…As State Officials Inspect Obalende, Apongbon, and others for Infractions
In an effort to create a more sustainable environment, Tokunbo Wahab, the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, along with Oluwaseun Osiyemi, his counterpart in the Transportation department, have given a four-day notice to vacate any land under the Obalende Bridge, as well as to any illegal motor park operators and buses that have moved to the main road.
The Commissioner told reporters that all shanties and their occupants, traders, squatters, cattle rearers, and abandoned vehicles currently under the Obalende Bridge must leave the area by Thursday afternoon because enforcement would start early on Friday morning. This was during the inspection tour of Obalende, Apongbon, Ebute-Ero, and Ijora for environmental infractions.
He added that all the commercial vehicle operators who have turned the main roads in Obalende into parking lots should relocate to the various parks provided for them because the government has had enough of the defacement of the aesthetics of Obalende by the operators and it must be restored.
Wahab said there is no going back on the matching order to the squatters and motorists in Obalende, which informed him of the presence of his counterpart from the transportation sector.
The Commissioner, who inspected the level of work on the clean-up of Apongbon UnderBridge, also visited Ebute Ero and other areas, asking state officials monitoring the areas to ensure full compliance with Mr. Governor’s directive that there should be no form of trading or habitation under the bridge and all adjoining areas.
He said Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) would move in after the squatters have been removed to commence work on the beautification and landscaping of Obalende Underbridge, Apongbon Underbridge, and Ebute Ero Underbridge, stressing that the cleanup exercise would spread to everywhere bridges exist across the state.
Earlier at the Ilubirin end of Lagos Island, the Commissioner said Ilubirin is strategic because the government is set to regenerate Isale Eko and to do that, there is a need to get the outflow of water through the Ilubirin path.
He recalled that the Governor was at Isale Eko late last year with the promise of regeneration, adding that the contractor needs to speed up work to ensure that the project is completed before the rain commences.
While speaking, the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said the Ministry of Transportation’s collaboration with the Environment and Water Resources has been beneficial to the State Government in delivering its mandate.
He stated that a park existed at Obalende for the use of motor park operators but has been taken over by shanties and squatters, adding that immediately the clean-up is effected, the park operators will be compelled to take over their parks and move away from the roads.
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