The Chairman of the Special Committee on Clean- Up of Ikoyi, Victoria
Island and Lekki, Tunji Bello on Sunday said the progressing
exercise has already cleaned up seven major streets in Victoria Island
and five in Ikoyi.
The Chairman who spoke with newsmen after an unscheduled visit to some
of the areas being Cleaned- up on Ahmadu Bello Way and Ozumba Mbadiwe
said the committee has decided to take the clean up exercise in the
listed streets in batches to ensure sustainability and effectiveness.
Bello who was joined by other members of the CLEAN- Up exercise
including the Sole Administrators of Iru-Victoria Island and
Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA, Princess Aderemi Adebowale and Felix Ona-
Olawale, officials of the Task Force on Special Offences, members of
VIIRA on the inspection, listed the streets already Clean –up in
Victoria Island to include Water Corporation Drive, Ahmadu Bello Way,
Adetokunboh Ademola, Bishop Aboyade Cole Street, Ajose Adeogun, Ligali
Ayorinde Street, Ozumba Mbadiwe while those already touched in Ikoyi
are Awolowo Road, Falomo Roundabout, Kingsway Road, Glover Road, and
Bourdillon Road.
He explained that the Committee has ensured that for each of the areas
where street traders were dislodged or shanties demolished, operatives
of KAI were positioned to ensure that such people or recalcitrant
traders do not return.
Tunji Bello added that for setbacks where horticulturists harbouring
street traders such as the ones at Awolowo Road and Ajose Adeogun
Street were operating, they have been dislodged; with the men of the
State Parks and Gardens Agency on ground to secure such areas for
greening.
“On Ahmadu Bello Way, where we have a lot of infractions such as
illegal parking by tricycles and conversion of median walkways to
parking space and setbacks by yellow taxis, car hires services,
companies without parking lots, all such vehicles which were not
removed after due notices, have been towed away to ensure free flow of
traffic.
“Even on the same Ahmadu Bello, Way, all those who have turned
the road to a major depot for charcoal have been removed and the
spaces secured with motorized KAI patrol vehicles.
“At the Eko Atlantic City end of Ahmadu Bello Way, which has been
taken over by miscreants and undesirable elements that masquerades as
religious worshippers who sleep and defecate on the stretch of the
fence have all been taken away and the area cleaned up through
combined operations by men of the State Task Force on Environmental
and Special Offences, the Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and
Environmental Health Officers of Iru- Victoria Island LCDA”, he
stated.
He said the exercise has also provided an avenue for security agencies
to dislodge criminally minded people who reside in several abandoned
land spaces and buildings in areas like Ligali Ayorinde that served as
brothels and drinking joints.
Tunji Bello said vegetal nuisances that come with overgrown weeds
and shrubs that dot many frontages and properties at Lugard Avenue,
Kingsway Road and Bourdillon Road are continually being cleared to
ensure an aesthetically beautiful environment.
He reiterated that the Special Task Force is committed to carrying out
the mandate of the Committee as spelt out during its inauguration by
the Governor and would ensure that all environmental nuisances which
dot the area are removed in a steady and systematic manner.
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