The Lagos State Government has started the demolition of shanties occupied by squatters under the Ijora Causeway Bridge.
The government had earlier on Sunday given a five-day quit notice to squatters under the bridge and the Lagos Blue rail Line overpass in Ijora to remove all their shanties for constituting a danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or risk demolition and removal.
The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, while giving the quit notice lamented the security risk the occupation of underneath the bridge by mini buses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants posed to the safe operation of the blue rail line service, and said the government would not allow it to continue.
Sharing videos on his X handle on Saturday, Wahab noted that the enforcement team was led by ACP Bayo Sulaiman under the directive of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu – to dislodge the squatters and clear the area.
He wrote, “Following the expiration of a 5-day quit notice issued to squatters under the Ijora Causeway Bridge by @followlasg last Sunday, the Enforcement Team of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and Special Intervention Squad on the Restoration of the Lagos Badagry Rail Corridor Clean-Up led by ACP Bayo Sulaiman begin enforcement by dislodging the illegal squatters and clearing up the area as directed by Lagos State Governor Sanwo-Olu.”
