By Modupe Gbadeyanka
All properties on the Right of Way of powerlines, canals, and pipelines across Lagos State will be pulled down from Thursday, February 15, 2024.
The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr Oluyinka Olumide, disclosed this in Alausa on Wednesday.
He said owners of structures in the areas should begin to remove them as the state government was prepared for massive enforcement by the Ministry in two weeks, stressing that the state government will stop at nothing to ensure a liveable and sustainable built environment.
He also disclosed that the government would commence the removal of illegal building attachments and conversion across the state from the same day.
The Commissioner frowned at the unwholesome practice of illegally converting residential to commercial premises and unduly erecting attachments to buildings, saying that it was high time for sanity and orderliness to reign across the State.
He maintained that the state would not tolerate the spate of lawlessness witnessed in commercial centres such as Lagos Island, Ikeja and Iyana-Ipaja, where shops are illegally extended with sheds and steel external stairways in a bid to attract customers.
He gave a two-week ultimatum for owners of illegal extensions to remove them, failing which the State Government would commence statewide demolition of such structuresstarting from Lagos Island.