KAI demolishes 54 shanties, dislodges squatters under Eko Bridge
THE Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC, popularly known as KAI, has demolished at least 54 illegal structures, with 84 illegal occupants and eight make-shift toilets, erected beneath Eko Bridge, at the Ebute-Ero, Elegbeta Water Channel, in the Lagos Island area of the State. Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Cole, (retd) who led the operation on Monday, explained that the moves was in consolidation of existing efforts aimed at reducing the spate of environmental nuisances to the barest minimum in the metropolis, According to Cole: ''The Elegbeta Water Channel which spans the Lagos Lagoon right under the Eko Bridge around the Ebute-Ero axis turned home to miscreants, illegal occupants occupying the water front, usually in the habit of promoting indiscriminate dumping of refuse into the lagoon, activating the base of the bridge as a criminal hideout and enjoining open defecation, urination and we swung into action after serving a 7-day abatement notice which wa...