Lagos Gives 24 Hours Quit Notice To Petrol Sellers Under Ijora Bridge

The Lagos State government has given a 24-hour quit notice to all those selling petroleum products under the Ijora Causeway Bridge to move all their trucks and containers or risk confiscation.

The quit notice was given on Sunday by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, when he led a team on an inspection of the bridge.

According to the Commissioner, the Petroleum product sellers posed enormous dangers to the infrastructure and human presence in the area.

Wahab also gave a five-day quit notice to other squatters under the bridge, ordering them to remove all their shanties for constituting a danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or risk demolition and removal.

He lamented the security risk that the occupation underneath the bridge by minibuses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants posed to the safe operation of the Blue Line rail service, noting that the government will not allow such to continue.

The Commissioner stated that the state Task Force on Special Offences would take full possession of the whole expanse of land under the bridge and would be sustained by the government.

Wahab and his team were also at the Park View Estate in Ikoyi where a secondary collector has been infringed upon from the upstream by building across and fencing it off.

He directed the Drainage Enforcement and Compliance Department to serve proper notices to all the property owners asking them to give unfettered access to the state to monitor its secondary collectors and remove any impediments if any.