To remove unauthorised constructions and street vendors from drainage setbacks in Maryland, the Lagos State government commenced an enforcement operation.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resource, Tokunbo Wahab, in a statement via his official X handle on Monday.
Wahab said officers of the Lagos Environmental Corps carried out the exercise around Mende Road by the SUBEB fence opposite the NEPA office, in Maryland, as part of an effort to achieve a cleaner Lagos.
He posted: “As instructed, the Special Operatives of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps @LAGESCOfficial/ KAI carried out a special enforcement operation today.
“The enforcement was to dislodge recalcitrant street traders and dismantle illegal structures on drainage setbacks which serve as wares depots at the perimeter fence of Mende Road by the SUBEB fence opposite the NEPA office, Maryland”.
DAILY POST reported earlier that the Lagos Government had given owners of buildings lying within the seven-metre setback on Orchid Road, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, and Osapa, all along the Ikota River, a week’s notice to leave.
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