Officials of the State Task Force on Special Offences, recently embarked on inspection tour of the Ijora under bridge and environs where they gave a five-day quit notice to illegal squatters under the Ijora causeway bridge and Lagos Blue rail Line overhead bridge in Ijora to remove all their shanties for constituting danger to the Lagos blue line corridor or risk demolition and removal.
This quit notice is important due to the security risk that the occupation of space underneath the blue rail line bridge by minibuses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants pose to the safe operation of the blue rail line service, and the government will not allow this to continue.
According to an official statement, the State Task Force on Special Offences will take full possession of the whole expanse of land under the Ijora Causeway Bridge and will be sustained by the State Government. A 24-hour quit notice has been given to all those selling petroleum products under the Ijora Causeway Bridge to move all their trucks and containers or risk confiscation.
The Environment team was also at the Park View Estate in Ikoyi where a secondary collector has been infringed upon from the upstream by building across and fencing it off. The team also 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. Monitoring and enforcement of the laws on the environment will be an everyday affair and this explains why the ministry has picked up from where it stopped last year.
The delegation included the Chairman, Special Squad on Restoration of the Lagos Badagry Rail Corridor, ACP Bayo Sulaiman, SA Environment, Hon. Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, PS Office of Drainage Services, Engr. Lekan Shodeinde and Environmental Services, Gaji Omobolaji, MD, LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, GM LASEPA, Dr Tunde Ajayi, the GM LASPARK, Mrs Toun Popoola, Managing Director LASAA, Prince Fatiu Akiolu, Corps Marshal KAI, Mrs Gbemi Akinpelu, and other directors in the ministy.
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