Drainage setback: Lagos issues 7-day demolition notice to owners of structures in Lekki
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Wahab charged Lagosians to respect the State Drainage Master Plan to avoid properties demolition asserting that there was no going back on the decision of the state to enforce the law and reclaim drainage setbacks following the expiration of the notices issued.
The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab on Sunday issued a seven day contravention notice to owners of buildings lying within the seven metres setback on Orchid road, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, Osapa all along the Ikota River.
Wahab made the declaration alongside the Special Adviser Environment, Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu after an extensive inspection tour which lasted till dusk to System 156 and 157 Channel along Ikota River in Eti Osa LG.
The inspection tour was to ascertain the level of compliance by property owners whose buildings and fences fell within the approved seven metres setback on both sides of the channel and had been given the option of voluntary compliance.
The Commissioner and his team also visited Oral Estate II along system 156 Igbo Efon where the Primary Channel was found to have been totally blocked by illegal structures without drainage approvals.
He also visited Agungi, Ajiran and Osapa where notices had earlier been served, saying that final decisions would be undertaken having seen the level of encroachment as regards the setbacks of Primary Channel and Secondary Collectors in the areas.
Wahab had explained that the System 156 Ikota river channel setback was originally 46 metres while property owners and residents on the corridor have reduced the size.
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