Lagos government demolishes 138 shanties where tenants pay N100k annual rent (Video)

It was reported in May that Wahab said the government discovered an apartment under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants paid N250,000 annual rent.

According to the commissioner, the under-bridge apartment had 86 partitioned rooms, sized “10×10 and 12×10”.

Also earlier this week, no fewer than 94 social miscreants who have converted the rail tracks into their sleeping quarters have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce.

The miscreants were arrested during an enforcement operations conducted along Pen Cinema and Fagba railway corridor.

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Officials said the operations were aimed at dislodging illegal occupants of the rail tracks who have also built shanties along the railway corridor.

Akerele disclosed that the action was necessary to provide residents around Fagba, Agege, and Pen Cinema railway routes a reprieve after series of complaints concerning the activities of criminal elements residing there.

He said the miscreants had shown a blatant disregard for the state’s environmental and sanitary laws.

The chairman further noted that the presence of squatters along the rail corridor was not only unhealthy but also hazardous.

He issued a warning to the ejected squatters not to return to the rail corridor, which was designed solely for the passage of trains.

Some of the recalcitrant squatters attempted to resist the Agency’s actions.

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