As part of measures to ensure a cleaner Lagos during the yuletide, the Special Committee on the Clean Up of Lekki, Victoria Island and Ikoyi has served contravention notices on owners of illegal structures, disused buildings and automobile mechanics operating on the highways in the three areas.
Chairman of the Committee and Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello in a statement on Sunday, said the serving of the contravention notices was preparatory to the commencement of enforcement on the affected structures and items from Monday.
The statement added that the enforcement exercise which will be a daily basis will be confined to the major streets and roads till the end of December this year after which the Enforcement team will move into the inner streets of the three areas.
“The serving of contravention notices and subsequent enforcement followed several weeks of sensitization campaigns carried by the Task Force and Residents Associations for the areas like the Lekki Residents Association, Victoria Island and Ikoyi Residents Association on the need for owners of illegal structures to remove such”.
The streets where the Committee’s enforcement team would operate on Monday in Lekki include Babatunde Dabiri Street, Admiralty Road, Fola Osibo Street, Omorinre Johnson Street, Durosinmi –Etti Street, Hakeem Dickson Street and Ogbunike Street.
Also speaking on the forthcoming Enforcement exercise, Chairman of the Task Force on Special Offences, Superintendent Yinka Egbeyemi who is expected to lead the team of law enforcement agents, sought the cooperation of all residents of Ikoyi, Lekki, and Victoria Island to ensure the success of the exercise.
Supol Egbeyemi also charged residents of the areas to feel free to ventilate any new observations or reports about environmental nuisances that may have been missed out to the Task Force through the various Residents Associations for immediate action.
The renewed enforcement which would be in phases is in furtherance of the avowed commitment of the present administration of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode to restore Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Lekki towards to its original master plan.
The other streets in Victoria Island scheduled to be reached by the Special Committee for mop up include Ahmadu Bello Way, Adetokunboh Ademola Street, Bishop Aboyade Cole Street, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, and Idowu Taylor/Martins Street, Samuel Manuwa Street, Ajose Adeogun Street, Sanusi Fafunwa Street, Water Corporation Close, Adeyemo Alakija Street, Akin Adesola Street, Adeola Odeku Street, Saka Tinubu Street, Kofo Abayomi Street and Ligali Ayorinde Avenue.
The affected streets to be touched in Ikoyi include Awolowo Road, Keffi Street, Falomo Roundabout, Kingsway Road, Norman Williams, Raymond Njoku Road, Oyinkan Abayomi Bourdillon Road, Cameron Road, Onikoyi Crescent, Glover Road and Osborne Road.
Others are Federal Secretariat Road, First and Second Avenue, Lugard Avenue, Alexander Avenue, Bank Road and Club Road.