Lagos uncovers another illegal settlement under Osbourne bridge

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By James Agberebi

02 May 2024 | 5:51 p.m.

The Lagos State authorities has uncovered different amerciable colony nether the Osborne bridge, Ikoyi. Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this connected Thursday connected X. The Commissioner added that the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI) commenced contiguous clearance operation. READ ALSO: Police apprehension 2 for kid trafficking successful Abuja On Wednesday,…

Under Osbourne bridge, Ikoyi

The Lagos State authorities has uncovered different amerciable colony nether the Osborne bridge, Ikoyi.

Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this connected Thursday connected X.

The Commissioner added that the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI) commenced contiguous clearance operation.

On Wednesday, the Lagos State authorities uncovered a web of makeshift apartments nether the Dolphin Estate Bridge successful Ikoyi wherever tenants reportedly wage N250,000 annually for a room.

According to Wahab, a full of 86 partitioned rooms, ranging successful size from 10×10 to 12×10, were recovered nether the bridge.

He said a instrumentality utilized for antithetic amerciable activities was besides discovered nether the Dolphin Estate bridge.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s peculiar adviser, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, said 23 individuals were arrested during the eviction process.

Rotimi-Akodu said the suspects created their amerciable colony nether the bridge, thereby exposing the captious infrastructure to impending destruction.

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