LAGOS ISSUES 72-HOURS ULTIMATUM TO MECHANICS ON ISLAND TO VACATE

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The Lagos State Government has given a 72-hour quit notice to mechanics and street traders operating under the bridges, roadsides and walkways on the Marina axis of the state to vacate immediately or risk arrest and prosecution.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business District, Mr. Agboola Dabiri while giving the governors directives said the state government had vowed to bring environmental sanity to all nooks and crannies of the State by checking the illegal activities of mechanics or street traders.

He said no amount of resistance and intimidation by miscreants could make the state government go back on its resolve to clean up the entire marina axis.

He decried the nuisance constituted by the activities of mechanics and road side automobile engineers, especially those operating indiscriminately under the bridges, open spaces, walkways and roads which are not in line with the clean up initiatives of the state government.

“We seek total compliance to these directives given to mechanics to vacate as there is no place for roadside mechanics, street trading, illegal shanties in the Marina Axis” Dabiri warned.

The Special Adviser reiterated the determination of the present administration led by Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to restore the original plan of Marina and its adjourning axis by checking the activities of street traders, mechanics, road side automobile repairers who have converted spaces under the bridges, walkways and roads to their workshops.

He said “Lagos State Government has observed with dismay the gross abuse of environment laws and urban planning by the roadside automobile engineers, mechanics and street traders on the Island. The environmental abuse thriving in these illegal mechanic garages can no longer be tolerated which necessitated the decision to check their illegalities”.

Source: pmnewsnigeria.com

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