The governor disclosed that a bill has been sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly to criminalise illegal land grabbing which has assumed a frightening dimension in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
Fashola disclosed this at the weekend during the second Corporate Assembly at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, lamenting the unwholesome activities of omo oniles across the state.
Several developers at the event had complained bitterly over harassment by land grabbers who collect huge sums of money from developers during construction.
The governor said when the bill is passed by the assembly, land grabbing would become criminal and illegal, adding that the new move would phase them out of the state completely.
He said government was not taking the issue lightly and would ensure that the bill becomes law so that land grabbing would be laid to rest once and for all.
Meanwhile, Fashola has ordered the immediate relocation of waste sorting activities under the Oyebanji Bridge by Adeniji Adele on Lagos Island.
Fashola, who inspected the regeneration work at Ijora-Apapa axis and the bridge on Sunday said, although the people under the Oyebanji Bridge were engaged in very useful economic activity of sorting refuse for recycling, the activity should not be carried out under the bridge.
Fashola added that the people under the Oyebanji Bridge would be made to work with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) so that they could do their sorting at the recycling plant on the Lagos Mainland.
He said the state government wanted to clear up the place, explaining that “the degradation here is like what we saw in Ijora many months back and we have cleaned up Ijora. We want to clean up this place.
“But unlike those who were degrading the land in Ijora, who were emptying oil waste and all of that into the ground water, these people are sorting refuse , so they have very useful economic activity. So we are going to make them work with LAWMA because we have a recycling plant on the Mainland of Lagos where all the sorting of waste and all of that can take place and be passed on to the end users.”
The governor, who disclosed that the people had already agreed to move, said, “I think the process now is how we move them and how we take possession, clean up the place and also free up traffic here.”
In addition to cleaning up the area, he said the state government’s action would also help to free traffic on the Oyebanji Junction of the Adeniji Adele Bridge, stressing that “all the buses that park on this bridge should not be here. We are going to take them down so they can park off the top of the bridge.
“Their passengers will go there under the bridge so that we have control of what activities go on here in a way that it does not endanger the bridge and in a way that they do their business of loading and offloading without impeding other citizens from using the road.”
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