CITIZENS COMPASS – The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI on Thursday, demolished 138 shanties, subsequently dislodging 169 illegal occupants in the Ajao Estate Canal bank area of the State.
This Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), disclosed this at the Agency’s Command Headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi while addressing the officials. According to him, ‘‘our intelligence sources identified the humongous infractions across the Ajao Estate Canal banks stretching several metres where people were living illegally in shanties and paid rents between 60,000 to 100,000 Naira to a particular syndicate and this made us activate our enforcement teams for a total dislodgement’’.
Cole expressed dismay at the brazen level of disregard for public health and safety due to the clustered illegal encampment, citing the development as a catalyst for the spread of communicable diseases, sexual violence and social issues resulting from the accommodation of miscreants in such hidden areas.
The Corps Marshal reiterated the Agency’s commitment to upholding the THEMES+ agenda of Mr. Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu which seeks to make Lagos cleaner and habitable for business, a mandate that KAI exhausts all resources on a daily to achieve in the State.
The KAI boss admonished Lagosians to desist from patronising illegal public encampments as he affirmed that many infractions will be identified and demolitions will be activated in due course.
