- Safiu Kehinde
The Lagos state government has served a five-day quit notice to illegal occupants of Ijora Under-Bridge and Lagos blue rail line overhead bridge that run across the area.
This was made known in a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the state’s commissioner for environment and water resources, Tokunbo Wahab.
As contained in the post, the commissioner had embarked on an inspection tour across Ijora area of the state alongside some of his officials.
Attached to the post was a video of the commissioner meeting with occupants of the area whom he addressed and instructed to vacate the area due to security reasons.
“Earlier today, we went on inspection tour of the Ijora under bridge and environ where I instructed that a five-day quit notice be given to illegal squatters under the Ijora causeway bridge and Lagos Blue rail Line overhead bridge in Ijora to remove all their shanties for constituting a danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or risk demolition and removal.
“This quit notice is important due to the security risk that the occupation of underneath of the blue rail line bridge by minibuses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants pose to the safe operation of the blue rail line service, and the government will not allow this to continue.” He posted.
While charging the state’s task force on special offences to take full possession of the land under the Ijora causeway bridge, the commissioner further gave 24-hour quit notice to all those selling petroleum products under the bridge.
Govenror Babajide Sanwo-Olu had earlier last year toured the routes along the rail lines to warn users to vacate.