PHOTOS: Lagos Dislodges Street Traders, Clears Shanties
Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps and the state’s Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences have dislodged street traders operating on drainage setbacks and razed down shanties in different areas of the state.
The spokesperson for the state’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adeshina, dislcosed this in photos shared on his X handle on Thursday.
Adeshina wrote, “Acting on directives of HC MOE&WR, Tokunbo Wahab, operatives of LAGESC/KAI recently dislodged illegal street traders displaying wares on walkway and drainage setbacks at Toyin street lkeja and Medical Junction along Airport Way, Ikeja in contravention of state sanitation laws.”
In a separate post, Adeshina wrote, “Acting on the directives of HC MOE&WR, Tokunbo Wahab, operatives of the Lagos Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences, Thursday cleared shanties at the Toll gate area of Victoria Island.”
