Lagos shuts beaches, halts work on 180 properties over land encroachment
The Lagos Relate Government has sealed off two current beachfront establishments, Timeless Sea skedaddle and Iceland Sea skedaddle, along with issuing end-work orders to 180 structures within the Okun-Ajah house of Eti-Osa over allegations of unlawful occupation of bellow-owned land.
The enforcement lag, led by the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Pattern, Hon. Dayo Bush Alebiosu, followed what authorities described as a prolonged duration of non-compliance with legit summons and contravention notices served to the affected property house owners.
Fixed with Alebiosu, repeated makes an try to determine as a lot as the bottom of the subject by dialogue had been disregarded by the occupants. “We delight in tried partaking these other folks by legit channels, but they’ve consistently chosen to flout the legislation,” he talked about. He added that the government can't condone what he described as deliberate brush apart for due assignment and land ownership guidelines.
Whereas some property house owners who had previously obtained contravention notices had been later issued E-Look paperwork after gratifying advantageous requirements, Alebiosu talked a couple of option of others persisted with construction in defiance of government directives.
The Commissioner confirmed that over 20 other folks had been arrested at some level of the operation and may perhaps presumably be prosecuted in accordance with bellow felony guidelines. He reiterated the government’s decide as a lot as the bottom of to present protection to waterfront areas and bellow land from unlawful construction.
Officials from the Ministry valuable that the crackdown is section of broader efforts to make fantastic portray, compliance, and sustainable construction along Lagos’s coastal zones.
