The Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Environment has demolished a structure serving as a restaurant on a drainage setback along Ademola Tokunbo Street, Victoria Island.
The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a Monday post on X, said while at the place, the officials observed that the structure was fabricated using two 20-foot imported containers placed on the setback and padded with Plaster of Paris.
The drainage behind where the containers were placed was sealed with metal sheets and converted to a septic tank.
Wahab’s post read, “Officers from the Monitoring Enforcement and Compliance Department of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources #LasgMOE while on enforcement of some infractions in Lekki over the weekend observed the placement of a structure serving as a restaurant on the drainage setback along Ademola Tokunbo Street, Victoria Island.
“The occupiers were served abatement notice, and the structures were marked for removal. Earlier today, the containers were removed, and the drainage was cleared.”
Two days ago, the government also removed illegal structures on setbacks on Fafunwa Street, Victoria Island.
This was following the dislodgement of mechanics on MacGregor Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos after several complaints from the public, and the occupants not yielding to the several notices served on them.
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