A seven-day contravention notice has been issued to owners of buildings on Orchid Road, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, Osapa all along the Ikota River.
The notice was issued by the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a statement signed by the ministry’s Director of Public Affairs, Kunle Adesina.
Also, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu, after an inspection tour of the Ikota River corridor, stated that the inspection tour was to find out the level of compliance by property owners whose buildings and fences fall within the approved seven-metre setback on both sides of the channel.
“The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab on Sunday issued a seven-day contravention notice to owners of buildings lying within the seven-metre setback on Orchid rd, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, Osapa all along the Ikota River,” he posted on X.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State government recently vowed that more structures will go down in the state.
In a separate development, the Nigerian Army, 6 Division, Port Harcourt, has confirmed the death of a soldier in a boat mishap that occurred on the Bolo waterway, in Ogu-Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Major Danjuma Jonah, in a statement, said the soldier was killed over the weekend while on active duty.
He noted that a gunboat carrying the late soldier was hit by a turbulent wave, which threw him overboard, and he was nowhere to be found.
The statement said a search and rescue mission was launched which led to the recovery of the soldier’s lifeless body and the boat involved in the accident.
According to the statement, Jonah said the late soldier paid the supreme sacrifice in the defence of his fatherland and service to humanity, adding that the Nigerian Army would greatly miss him.