Traders kick as LAWMA, LAGESC demolish 650 illegal structures under Idunmota bridge
Traders at a popular marker in Idunmota were shell-shocked as the Lagos State Government through the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI and in conjunction with the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), removed more than 650 illegal shanties and shops under the Idunmota Bridge.
Speaking on the exercise, the Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), made this disclosure at the Agency’s Command Headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi.
According to him, ‘‘The clearance operation with the code name ‘Let Lagos Breath’ undertaken by our operatives in collaboration with LAWMA ensured that we dislodged defiant traders erecting shops beneath the bridge which is hazardous to the integrity of the structure and capable of causing infernos’’.
Cole also mentioned that the clearance operation was activated to forestall a repeat of the Apongbon bridge incident, which pointed accusing fingers at traders that erected electrical installations and cooling systems under the Apongbon bridge, which caused the inferno.
The KAI Boss also warned traders in the habit of erecting illegal structures beneath other bridges to desist from the act, as defaulters will be made to face the full wrath of the law
