Lagos confronts squatters, illegal fuel sellers in Ijora, gives notice to quit

The Lagos State Government has issued a five-day notice to quit to squatters under the Ijora Causeway Bridge and Lagos Blue Rail Line overhead bridge in the Ijora area.

The government told the squatters to remove all their shanties, pointing out that the shanties were constituting danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor.

The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, issued the notice when he led a delegation to the area.

In Wahab’s train were the  Chairman, Special Intervention Squad on the Restoration of the Lagos Badagry Rail Corridor Clean-Up, Assistant Commissioner of Police Bayo Sulaiman, and Special Adviser on the Environment, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu.

Wahab who said the squatters constituted security risk underneath the Blue Rail Line bridge, added that mini buses, block moulders, fuel sellers, and miscreants were to the safe operation of the Blue Rail Line service.

Wahab also gave a 24-hour notice to quit those selling petroleum products under the Ijora Bridge.

He also said that no form of enforcement would be carried against distributors and sellers of styrofoam products until the expiration of the three-week moratorium granted them.