.as syndicate collects rent raging from N100,000

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC, popularly called Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, on Thursday demolished 138 shanties, and also dislodged169 illegal residents occupying the Ajao Estate Canal bank in the State.

The Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Cole (retd) at the Agency’s Command Headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi, explained that the exercise was in continuation of concerted measures to reduce the scourge of environmental infractions and illegal encampment of public spaces,

According to Cole, ‘‘Our intelligence sources identified the humongous infractions across the Ajao Estate Canal banks stretching several metres where people were living illegally in shanties and paid rents between N60,000 to N100,000 to a particular syndicate and this made us activate our enforcement teams for a total dislodgement’.”

He expressed dismay at the brazen level of disregard for public health and safety due to the clustered illegal encampment, citing the development as a catalyst for the spread of communicable diseases, sexual violence and social issues resulting from the accommodation of miscreants in such hidden areas.

The Corps Marshal reiterated the agency’s commitment to upholding the THEMES+ agenda of Mr. Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu “which seeks to make Lagos cleaner and habitable for business, a mandate that KAI exhausts all resources on a daily to achieve in the State.”

Cole therefore, admonished residents to desist from patronising illegal public encampments as he affirmed that many infractions will be identified and demolitions will be activated in due course.