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The Lagos State Government connected Thursday gave marching orders for the contiguous dislodgement of each squatters nether the Opebi–Mende bridge.
The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, made this known successful a connection signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Mr Kunle Adeshina.
He said the squatters had converted the underbelly of the caller but yet to beryllium inaugurated Opebi–Mende span to homes and stores.
He besides directed information agencies to instantly determination successful and dislodge each the squatters and their shanties.
According to Wahab, the superior work of each authorities is the preservation of beingness and property, and the contiguous medication would not shirk its work successful that regard.
He said it is disheartening that an iconic project, astir acceptable for inauguration, had abruptly been taken implicit by assorted miscreants and squatters.
He added that adjacent immoderate radical from the Cane Village had travel to the underbelly of the span to make an amerciable settlement.
He vowed that the authorities authorities would not lone dislodge the squatters but would permanently show the locations, so that they would not return.
He warned each the automobile mechanics who had converted the unfastened abstraction adjacent to the span to their store to instantly relocate to debar impounding the vehicles.
The Special Adviser connected Infrastructure, Mr Olufemi Daramola, portion conducting the commissioner and others round, said his bureau is acrophobic that if contiguous enactment is not taken, the country mightiness go a slum.
Daramola emphasised that the authorities had invested humongous resources successful erecting the span and would not let undesirable elements to usage it arsenic a means of unleashing panic connected law-abiding citizens.
He gave an undertaking that the Office of Infrastructure would spouse with the ministry to guarantee the area’s full cleanliness and sustenance.
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