PENULTIMATE Wednesday, the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday, said the state government he works for has discovered dwellings under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants pay N250,000 annual rent.
His words: “A total number of 86 rooms, partitioned into 10×10 and 12×10, and a container used for different illegal activities were discovered under the Dolphin Estate Bridge. Rotimi-Akodu said 23 individuals were arrested during the eviction, which was carried out by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known as KAI on Tuesday.
He also confirmed that the bridge has hitherto housed 86 dwellings , partitioned into 10×10 and 12×10 with squatters paying an average rent of N250,000 per annum. In the wake of the fire under Apongbon Bridge in 2022, the Federal Government moved to sanitise the situation by trying to evict some of these illegal users of under-bridge spaces. The efforts, as far as one can see, were half-hearted, as many of the people initially sent away seem to have regained their spaces. The situation is more or less the same under many bridges in Lagos. Taking the bridge to Ijora Western Avenue presents a spectacle of environmental degradation through misuse.
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