Lagos Govt Uncovers Another Illegal Apartments Under Osborne Bridge

Lagos State government on Thursday discovered another illegal settlement under Osborne Bridge, Ikoyi.

This comes days after uncovering another illegal 86 rooms and a container used for illicit activities under the Dolphin Estate Bridge in Lagos.

The Dolphin Estate Bridge which had, a total of 86 partitioned rooms, ranging in size from 10×10 to 12×10, were found under the bridge.

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Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources in the state, Hon. Tokunbo Wahab, confirmed that the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), discovered that people illegally resided in that location and operatives of the corps have already dislodged the illegal settlers.

This revelation was made in a post by Wahab on his verified X handle on Thursday. “They have all been removed by the enforcement team of Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resource,” Wahab wrote.

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The revelation that tenants in the shanties under the  Dolphin Estate Bridge in Ikoyi paid N250,000 annually has left netizens baffled.

Nineteen people were nabbed under the Osborne bridge at Ikoyi, and the makeshift shelters have been destroyed and cleared by the Lagos State Environmental Health and Safety Corps.

Nancy Achugbu

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