The Lagos State Ministry of Environment’s Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department on Monday dismantled unlawful structures and expelled unauthorised vendors surrounding various schools in the state’s Badagry area.
Tokunbo Wahab, the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, made the announcement in a statement posted on X on Tuesday.
According to Wahab, he initiated an investigation after receiving a petition from the administration of Ajara Senior Secondary School in Badagry over indiscriminate and unauthorised commercial operations by street merchants in front of the school.
He wrote, “The Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department of the Ministry #LasgMOE visited the location, investigated, and served necessary abatement notices.
“Following expiration of the served abatement of nuisance notices and refusal to comply, MEC operatives moved in on Monday and cleared the frontage of Ajara Senior Grammar School Badagry to restore sanity.”
The operatives also cleared unlawful buildings and commercial operations near Anglican Primary School Ilogbo-Eremi, Badagry, Morogbo Primary School, Badagry, and Nigerian French Language Village, Badagry, according to the Commissioner.
Wahab added that the enforcement has become necessary due to the revelation that unwholesome commercial operations within the school premises are a contributing reason to the growth in absenteeism, hooliganism, and other vices detrimental to students’ moral and intellectual development.
