The Lagos State Government has initiated the clearance of an illegal settlement found beneath the Osborne Bridge in Ikoyi.
Lagos State Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, announced this via his official X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday.
He stated that officials from the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps had begun clearing operations at the site.
The discovery of the illegal settlement beneath Osborne Bridge closely follows the Lagos State Government’s dismantling of a network of makeshift apartments below Dolphin Estate Bridge in Ikoyi, an upscale area. Squatters were evicted from the site, where tenants were reportedly paying N250,000 annually for a room, prompting government action.