The Lagos State government has discovered 86 rooms under the Dolphin Estate bridge, Ikoyi.
Speaking via his X handle on Wednesday, Tokunbo Wahab, commissioner for Environment and Water Resources said the under-bridge apartment has 86 partitioned rooms, sized “10×10 and 12×10.”
He said that the “enforcement team of Lagos State’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources had successfully removed all structures, including a container utilised for various illegal activities, from beneath the Dolphin Estate Bridge.”
Also speaking on the discovery, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, special adviser to the state government on environment matters via his X handle said “squatters there have been paying an average rent of N250k per annum.”
The illegal occupants were evicted on Tuesday.
“Squatters dwelling under the bridge leading from inward Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi were evicted on Tuesday by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps LAGESC (aka KAI),” he said.
“These people created their own illegal settlement under the bridge, thereby exposing the critical infrastructure to impending destruction. 23 persons have so far been arrested and MoE/KAI will continue to monitor the place.
“The law will definitely take its course.”
The commissioner said more than 18 persons have been arrested adding that “wood materials were used to construct the shelters, some occupants used gas cylinders, some had stored fuel for their generators, these are recipes for disaster.”
