The Lagos State Government has demolished some shanties in Ajao Estate Canal bank, where tenants reportedly pay N100,000 annual rent.
The State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this known in a statement shared via his official X handle on Friday.
Wahab wrote, “In continuation of concerted measures to reduce the scourge of environmental infractions and illegal encampment in public spaces, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI on Thursday demolished 138 shanties around the canal bank in Ajao Estate Canal where illegal occupants pays between N60,000 to N100,000 rent.”