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LASG discovers 86 rooms where tenants pay N250,000 yearly under bridge (videos)

Hedrick Onyirioha
May 02, 2024
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The Lagos state government has discovered 86 partitioned rooms under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, on Lagos Island.

According to the commissioner for environment and water resources, Tokunbo Wahab, the tenants, said to be living in rooms sized 10×10 and 12×10, pay N250,000 per annum for the makeshift apartment under the bridge.

Wahab, via X on Wednesday, May 1, disclosed that the enforcement team of the ministry had successfully removed all structures, including a container utilised for various illegal activities, from beneath the Dolphin Estate bridge.

[embed]https://twitter.com/tokunbo_wahab/status/1785722721185239092?ref[/embed]  

“They have all been removed by the enforcement team of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources”

Confirming the news, Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, the special adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that 23 individuals were arrested during the eviction, which was carried out by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps…

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