A Seven days ‘Removal Notice’ is being served to all owners/occupiers of illegal structures/shanties including containarised shops around Abattoir and Oko-oba, Agege to remove them with their belongings immediately.

The Removal Notice which was served by Lagos State Government include the over two thousand five hundred structures/shanties including containarised shops within abattoir and Fagba by Railway side, Agege.

According to government, the illegal shanties were occupied by miscreants and hoodlums who terrorised innocent citizens around Agege area by dispossesing them of their valuables such as phones, wallets and jewelleries both in the early hours of the morning and at night.

Chairman, Lagos State Task Force, Olayinka Egbeyemi who led the enforcement team, said it was an eye-sore as miscreants and hoodlums freely smoke and sell Indian hemp including prostitution by under age boys and girls around the area.

Egbeyemi, a Superintendent of Police said residents around Oko-oba railway line including Estate could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed as there were series of complaints about criminal activities of the miscreants and hoodlums.

He said the illegal shanties within Abattoir aside of being on the landscape of the Abattoir complex and harbouring miscreants were contributing to the growing concern of health, environment and safety issues in and around Agege area.

Egbeyemi commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for spending much on infrastructural development across the State which included construction of more roads around Agege and fly-over bridge for motorists by Pen-cinema.

He said the Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal had directed that immediately after the expiration of the ‘Removal Notice” any miscreants or hoodlums arrested be charge to court for prosecution.

The Superintendent of Police said the Police Boss had directed that the agency should carry out raid on all criminal hideouts and black-spots across the state, saying the Command would not relent in securing a safe environment for citizens within the State and the country at large.