The Lagos State Government has insisted that it will continue to demolish structures built over drainage channels across the state in a bid to ensure justice and fairness to all residents.
The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made the promise, according to a statement on Saturday, shortly after assessing the demolition of structures built on the drainage channel in the Lekki 2 Ikota corridors.
Wahab was quoted as saying, “At Ikota, the level of encroachments is just unimaginable; people have built on the canal path and we resolved that these nuisances cannot be allowed to continue. It just had to stop.
“We have gone round and we concluded that all houses on the canal path and on the canal itself must be removed and the path recreated to discharge into Ikota River. This enforcement will be a continuous exercise, people cannot blame the government for what they caused by their actions, whatever negative thing you do to the environment will come to haunt you eventually.”
“We cannot be brazen in our illegality and be brazen in our nonchalant attitude to the environment. It has to end, and illegality cannot beget legality.”
Wahab also urged homeowners to seek and obtain drainage approval alongside other approvals before they embarked on their building projects to avert such a situation.
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