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In continuation of efforts to restore environmental sanity across the metropolis, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI and in conjunction with the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), on Thursday removed more than 650 illegal shanties and shops beneath the Idunmota Bridge to dislodge traders occupying the base of the structure to display wares for sale.

Speaking on the exercise, the Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), made this disclosure at the Agency’s Command Headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi. According to him, ‘‘The clearance operation with the code name #LetLagosBreathe undertaken by our operatives in collaboration with LAWMA ensured that we dislodged defiant traders erecting shops beneath the bridge which is hazardous to the integrity of the structure and capable of causing infernos’’.

Cole also mentioned that the clearance operation was activated to forestall a repeat of the Apongbon bridge incident, which pointed accusing fingers at traders that erected electrical installations and cooling systems under the Apongbon bridge, which caused the inferno.

The KAI Boss also warned traders in the habit of erecting illegal structures beneath other bridges to desist from the act, as defaulters will be made to face the full wrath of the law. He mentioned that the operation would be continuous.

The Corps Marshall also read the riot act to street traders to refrain from hawking in traffic and displaying wares for sale on road setbacks, lay-bys, medians, verges, kerbs and gutter slabs which is in stark violation of the State’s Environmental Laws. He ened transiting Lagosians to always embrace safety by using pedestrian bridges when crossing highways in the State.

#AGreaterLagosRising
#LASG

Eko oni baje

Very good

usecondom:
Very good

Noted

Dem don Chase ronus comot from their G. R. A

No time, clear everything

Some nairalanders living there will be here shouting I am a Lagosian up and down😀

Dapo Abiodun just deh Ogun state deh mumu deh find portable up and down ..

Mumu man just need to leverage on lagos massive development and create a reasonable environment for people to move in .

Soon rail line from lagos is coming down to mowe but dapo never tell us what he will do to embrace that . Man no just get idea at all .

who and who voted that man self ?

BrutusOj:
Some nairalanders living there will be here shouting I am a Lagosian up and down😀

Helinues and co

This guys even put iron doors on top bridge ohhh.
Nigerians get stupid mind ohh

I pity the people affected by this, but is the right thing to do to make the state and the country clean

Someone's means of survival

Jamiubond009:
Helinues and co

I tell you, they are the ones carrying Lagos matters on their heads with tribal agendas eerytime.

Lovelyflower:
I pity the people affected by this, but is the right thing to do to make the state and the country clean

You pity those idiots , building shanties there? Were they suppose to be there in the first place?
The government, even need to arrest them......can't they rent an apartment like everyone else? Or it is a must they live in Lagos .....

You guys should check up on Yarimo, Helinus and there ronu crew if they are now homeless sanwo Eko is really dealing with them I heard the ones that were dumped at osun forest have now decided to the bandits in the southwest.

I am sure they will be back after sometime

money121:
Eko oni baje

Unfortunately claiming alone won't change much of the reckless looting that has made Lagos a glorified ghetto despite 60 times increase in revenue and budget since 1999, which is not matched by improved services and utilities.

Do you think that is because APC is filled with progreThieves rather than progressives like Awolowo and Jakande

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Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=mes_capstones;Ensuring

Better late than never.
It's long overdue.

Let's imagine 1 shanty houses at least 5 people. So that's 3250 people displaced

[ author=Sleekfingers post=134233400]


You pity those idiots , building shanties there? Were they suppose to be there in the first place?
The government, even need to arrest them......can't they rent an apartment like everyone else? Or it is a must they live in Lagos .....
[/quote] take it easy with your insults, most of them are not on nairaland to see your rants. We all humans and we know the current situation of the country.
Meanwhile shouldn't you also blame the gov for all of this too? They neglect most of their responsibilities and maken life hard for people.
If the gov have provided the basic needs of the people we wouldn't be having this conversation. No affordable housing anywher, the gov left everything for us todo by oourselves. We buy land, build house, and also provides water by ourselve, Jesus!!

Majorly dominated by Yoruba traders o... No noise...!

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oneMalik:
Dapo Abiodun just deh Ogun state deh mumu deh find portable up and down ..

Mumu man just need to leverage on lagos massive development and create a reasonable environment for people to move in .

Soon rail line from lagos is coming down to mowe but dapo never tell us what he will do to embrace that . Man no just get idea at all .[

who and who voted that man self ?

[color=#000099]pp[/color][color=#000099] person wey never do ordinary moto road na railway him wan do?

Lovelyflower:
[ author=Sleekfingers post=134233400]


You pity those idiots , building shanties there? Were they suppose to be there in the first place?
The government, even need to arrest them......can't they rent an apartment like everyone else? Or it is a must they live in Lagos .....
take it easy with your insults, most of them are not on nairaland to see your rants. We all humans and we know the current situation of the country.
Meanwhile shouldn't you also blame the gov for all of this too? They neglect most of their responsibilities and maken life hard for people.
If the gov have provided the basic needs of the people we wouldn't be having this conversation. No affordable housing anywher, the gov left everything for us todo by oourselves. We buy land, build house, and also provides water by ourselve, Jesus!!

This is still an excuse for illegalities.....were they suppose to be there in the first place? If houses in Lagos is not affordable. Can't they move to any other states where accomodations is affordable?
Why would any sane person be building shanties anywhere?
No doubt the government aren't doing the necessary. By providing affording house . But how many housing units can the government provide ? Some don't have business living in Lagos .
Most of them will leave their village , without any plan or where to lay their heads . And start littering everywhere with shanties......and you expect the government to look away?

They need to be arrest . And dealt with.....

money121:

#AGreaterLagosRising
#LASG

Why would Igbos build shanty under bridge...

Give them Small time them go come back