On Monday morning, the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly called LAGES, visited the Amuwo-Odofin odofin axis of the state.
This visit came in line to ensure illegal structures were removed. On the said day, illegal roadside traders and shanties built on drainage channels in some parts of the FESTAC Town estate of the Amuwo-Odofin community were uprooted.
The visited area was the 11 Road axis, 21 Road , 211 Junction in the estate. The traders were removed from the area in an enforcement operation carried out on Monday.
The operation that came with enforcement was gathered to be part of the ongoing effort to maintain law and order in the state, thereby correcting environmental degradation.
KAI Corp Marshal, Olaniyi Cole, led the enforcement team in a sting operation.
The State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this via a statement shared on his official X.com, formerly Twitter.
The statement read in in part:
“As part of the ongoing efforts to maintain law and order in the state, Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources through the operatives of #LAGESCOfficial earlier today (Monday).
“LAGESCOfficial conducted an enforcement operation at 21 Road, 211 Junction, FESTAC town, dislodging illegal roadside traders and removing shanties built on the drainage and road causing environmental nuisance
Lagos State Government also vowed “there is no going back on the enforcement and restoration of right-of-way for all drainage channels and other environmental infractions in the state, no matter whose ox is gored.”