Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce), are currently demolishing several illegal structures around Government Public Schools at Mile 2, Badagry Expressway, Lagos. The structures which includes; shanties, mechanic workshops, containarised kiosks and commercial bus garages around the area.
Chief Superintendent of Police , CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who led the enforcement team disclosed that before the demolition exercise, owners and occupants of the illegal structures, containarised kiosks and bus garages were served 7-day removal notice to vacate the entire area as well as the vicinity of the schools within the stipulated period.
CSP Egbeyemi also stated that, “prior to the removal exercise, there were series of complaints and petitions by residents, particularly management of the Public Schools (Imoye High School and Amuwo Odofin Junior Secondary School) that criminal elements had turned the area into hideouts for carrying out their nefarious activities, thereby making the environment unpleasant for living and learning.”
“These illegal structures also served as an outlet for the sales of illegal hard drugs like Tramadol, Codeine, Skunk, Weed including mixed liquor to miscreants,” he added.
“Lagos is the most populous state in Nigeria as well as its economic heartbeat. As such, the zero tolerance for all forms of crimes and criminality by the present administration would be sustained,”Egbeyemi expressed.