If you are fortunate enough to have a roof over your head in Lagos State, then you should consider yourself lucky.
As we speak, another crowd of people will join the already homeless crowds of people flooding the streets of Lagos.
What we are talking about will happen in less than 48 hours.
You see, on Saturday, the Lagos State Government issued a 48-hour eviction notice to illegal occupants of the Ikoyi Towers in the Lagos Island area of the state.
It was the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, who made this known during an inspection of the estate.
Undocumented Residents
In a post via his official X handle, Wahab stated that hundreds of undocumented residents were seen on the premises. To make matters worse, they lacked sanitary provisions.
The Commissioner added that they posed security and environmental threats to the state.
Trust the Lagos State Government on issues like this, an eviction notice was issued almost immediately.
Wahab, therefore, stated that the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources has given the illegal occupants a 48-hour vacation notice to leave the area.
He wrote: “Abandoned Ikoyi Towers which we observed were housing illegal occupants posing a security threat to the environment and a nuisance to the state.
Eviction Notice
“An undocumented number of persons running into hundreds were seen on the premises with no sanitary provisions and whose daily activities could not be ascertained.
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“They have been given a 48-hour vacation notice to leave the area”.
Wahab further stated that the team also conducted an inspection.
This inspection was to assess the enforcement of Osborne under-bridge order after the illegal structures harbouring several people were removed.