Lagos Govt Stops Land Reclamation Activities In Lekki

Lagos State authorities astatine the play issued an contiguous seal and halt enactment bid for amerciable onshore reclamation activities to constrictive and trim the size of the Ikota River astir Partibons Homes Estate/Bee-Forth Estate Phase 2 disconnected Orchid Road successful the Lekki country of the state.

The state’s commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, gave the directive portion speaking with the media aft an inspection of the area, saying the amerciable activities successful the portion are heart-wrenching due to the fact that immoderate individuals person deliberately chosen to destruct the ecosystem.
Wahab said the ministry precocious received an SOS connection stating that immoderate radical were aggressively reclaiming parts of the Ikota River and erecting amerciable structures to merchantability the illicit properties to unsuspecting/innocent citizens.

He stressed that flash flooding cannot beryllium stopped successful a coastal state, particularly 1 similar Lagos, which borders the Atlantic, Lagoons, and rivers. He added that flooding tin lone beryllium mitigated by implementing resilient infrastructure alongside assorted sustainable approaches.

“This contiguous medication has introduced antithetic approaches successful mitigating flooding, immoderate of which see the proviso of resilient infrastructure, continuous attraction of each drainage channels each twelvemonth circular by the Ministry’s EFAG squad and operation of secondary collectors/primary channels statewide”, helium said.

He added that immoderate unscrupulous individuals who judge they are supra the instrumentality are pushing backmost quality and blocking strategy 156/ 157, forgetting that these channels are connected a coastal alignment that indispensable discharge into the Ikota to further discharge into the Lagoon.

He said tempest h2o discharge had been designed by quality itself, but quality activities person distorted it. He said the authorities would not fold its hands and would let the implications to impact the majority.

The Commissioner besides visited the ongoing right-of-way restoration on the Ikota River alignment successful Oral Estate II, noting that 17 units person been removed.

He recalled that the authorities engaged the spot owners to find a win-win solution, saying it was indispensable to region the contraventions connected the close of mode on the Ikota River due to the fact that it is the lone transmission supporting the Atlantic successful the axis.

The Environment Commissioner, alongside his counterpart successful the Ministry of Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, besides inspected biology infractions on the Lekki/Epe expressway successful mentation for the forthcoming Green obstruction enactment on the Corridor.