Lagos State government yesterday gave a five-day quit notice to squatters under the Ijora Causeway bridge and Lagos Blue rail line overhead 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, Assistant Commissioner BAYO Sulaiman and Special Adviser on the Environment, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu on an inspection of the bridge.
Wahab, who lamented the security risk the occupation underneath the Blue Rail Line bridge by minibuses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants posed to the safe operation of the Blue Rail Line service, said the government would not allow this to continue.
He said the state task force on special offences would take full possession of the whole expanse of land under the Ijora Causeway Bridge, adding that it 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, as they posed enormous dangers to infrastructure and human presence in the area.
Wahab reiterated that no form of enforcement must be carried out against distributors and sellers of styrofoam products until the expiration of the three weeks moratorium granted to users.
He maintained that the three weeks window would allow all producers and distributors to mop up all the stock they had 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 by property developers.
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.
