The Lagos State Government has demolished 138 shanties along the Ajao Estate Canal bank, where illegal occupants reportedly paid between N60,000 to N100,000 annually in rent.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a statement shared on X.com on Friday. Wahab stated that the demolition was part of ongoing efforts by the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), also known as KAI, to curb environmental violations and remove unauthorized structures from public spaces.
“In continuation of concerted measures to reduce the scourge of environmental infractions and illegal encampment in public spaces, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps on Thursday demolished 138 shanties around the canal bank in Ajao Estate Canal where illegal occupants pay between N60,000 to N100,000 rent,” Wahab wrote.
In May, Wahab had reported the discovery of an apartment under the Dolphin Estate Bridge in Ikoyi, where tenants paid N250,000 annually for one of 86 partitioned rooms measuring approximately “10×10 and 12×10.”
