Lagos State government, yesterday, gave a five-day quit notice to squatters under the Ijora Causeway Bridge and the Lagos Blue Rail Line overhead bridge in Ijora.
It ordered them to remove their shanties for constituting danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or face demolition and forced removal.The quit notice was given by Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, when he led a 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 Environment, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, on an inspection.
Wahab, who lamented the security risk posed by mini buses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants, said government will not allow the trend to continue.The commissioner said the State Task Force on Special Offences will take full possession of the expanse of land under the Ijora Causeway Bridge.
He also gave a 24-hour quit notice to persons selling petroleum products under the Ijora Bridge to move their trucks and containers or risk confiscation.
Also, he said no form of enforcement will be carried out against distributors and sellers of styrofoam products until expiration of the three-week moratorium granted them. He maintained that the window will allow producers and distributors to mop up all the stocks they have before enforcement takes effect.
