Commissioner for the Environment, Tokunbo Wahab.
The Lagos State Government has commenced the removal of illegal structures and unauthorised occupants along the Lagos–Okokomaiko–Badagry Expressway, warning that the corridor will be subjected to sustained monitoring to prevent fresh encroachments.
The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement shared on his official X account on Wednesday, after inspecting the ongoing exercise alongside senior government officials and environmental enforcement agencies.
Wahab said the operation was being carried out by operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Taskforce, Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, the Lagos Waste Management Authority, and other relevant agencies.
He said the removal was necessary to protect the road median, which was deliberately created by the state government to accommodate the Lagos Rail Mass Transit project.
