The Lagos Direct Commissioner for Atmosphere and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab has given owners of shanties on setbacks and appropriate of design on the Blue Rail line corridor from Orile to Iyana Iba seven days to transfer backwards or relocate.
The commissioner gave the ultimatum when he supervised the elimination of shanties and unlawful constructions on authorities setbacks and appropriate of design along the Lagos/Badagry Parkway.
He famed that it became significant to make certain that a total restoration of the glorious of design.
Wahab defined that the enforcement becomes paramount following the expiration of the one-month check given by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to road merchants, squatters, besides occupiers of shanties and deserted autos on the Lagos/ Badagry Parkway.
Wahab, who became accompanied by the chairman of the Particular Intervention Team for the restoration of the Blue Line Handsome of Procedure, ACP Bayo Sulaiman, pressured that the Lagos/Badagry Parkway is a world dual carriageway and the setback should not be infringed upon.
The commissioner, who particularly talked about the unlawful settlement at Agboju, the set squatters beget built shanties on authorities setbacks, acknowledged the Lagos Direct Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) will steal over the beautification and landscaping as soon as the squatters beget been ejected.
He pressured that the glorious of design for the Lagos Badagry Parkway stands between 90 to 120 meters, ‘therefore, any constructing that falls between is perchance now not allowed to face,’ he added.
“The Particular Intervention Team is cleaning up the Lagos/Badagry puny-entry dual carriageway to rid it of all environmental nuisances and dark spots. The exercise will be sustained to make certain that ejected squatters attain now not return to rebuild these shanties.
“Let me also warn that every portion of the recount will be cleared of unlawful shanties, so road merchants and squatters might perchance presumably well presumably honest serene relocate, particularly those at the Afolabi Ege Market in Iyana Iba. They beget seven days to attain this because they residing off web philosophize visitors bottlenecks along the axis,” he acknowledged.