The Lagos State Government, yesterday, commenced the enforcement exercise to clean up Ikoyi and Victoria Island and impounded 36 exotic cars, as well as trucks from an illegal car mart and mechanic workshop located on the pedestrian walkway along Murtala Mohammed Drive, formerly Bank Road in Ikoyi. During the enforcement action, led by the Chairman, Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences, Yinka Egbeyemi, four persons were also arrested and promptly arraigned before a mobile court. They were arrested for various offences, including conversion of a walkway on Bank Road into beer parlour, as well as transforming a pedestrian route into a car mart with 36 fairly-used vehicles displayed for sale. The team also visited Adekunle Lawal (formerly McGregor Road) and Olawale Daudu Road (formerly Lord Rumens) to dismantle a makeshift car wash opposite Abraham’s Court, towing away four wrongly parked vehicles. The team had earlier embarked on several awareness campaigns through the electronic, print and social media to sensitise residents, owners of illegal structures on setbacks, walkways, drainage alignments, roadside mechanics and squatters in the affected areas, as well as the public on the need for compliance, maintaining that anyone caught would be punished in accordance with the environmental laws of the state.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2020 04:41 UTC