*Lagos State Government urges car dealers, water tank sellers, and illegal shop extension owners in Abule-Egba stretch of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and Agege to stop turning the lay-bys and setbacks into illegal car lots, thereby obstructing the Right of Way for government projects

Emmanuel Akosile | ConsumerConnect

In order to rid Lagos State, fondly called the Centre of Excellence, of environmental nuisance and achieve a cleaner environment for the wellbeing of the residents, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has removed illegal structures on the Abule-Egba stretch of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and Agege area of the state.

ConsumerConnect reports the Lagos State Government (LASG) disclosed that LAGESC conducted the cleaning exercise in a joint operation with the Governors’ Office Taskforce Team, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources enforcement arm of the administration.

Bolade-Oshodi, Corps Marshal of LAGESC, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (Rtd.), while speaking on the joint operation at the Command Headquarters, in Lagos, said the exercise was embarked upon because illegal structures on the Abule-Egba axis of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and Agege had encroached on the Right of Way (RoW).

CP Akinpelu (Rtd.) said: “The occupiers of the illegal structures on the Egbeda axis and the developer of a block of shops at Agege had earlier been served with abatement notices but they failed to comply.

“This was why our Special Squad had to remove these structures in conjunction with the Governors’ Office Special Project team and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources enforcement arm.”

The LAGESC Corps Marshal also revealed that the Lagos State Government would no longer condone the menace of car dealers, water tank sellers and illegal shop extensions along the axis because the business owners are turning the lay-bys and setbacks to illegal car lots, thereby obstructing the Right of Way for government projects for the benefit of the citizenry.

Akinpelu, who assured that the operation would be continuous, further stated that the Agency would extend the cleansing exercise to every part of the Lagos State in its determination to curb all environmental infractions, remove illegal structures, and free the walkways, lay-bys and setbacks of all forms of obstruction.