On Monday, the Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Environment took action to clear illegal structures and dislodge unauthorized traders around schools in the Badagry area of the state.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement released on Tuesday.
Wahab explained that he initiated an investigation in response to a petition from the authorities of Ajara Senior Secondary School, Badagry, regarding indiscriminate and unauthorized commercial activities by street traders in front of the school.
He said, “The Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department of the Ministry #LasgMOE visited the location, investigated, and served necessary abatement notices. Following the 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 Commissioner noted that the operatives also cleared illegal structures and commercial activities around Anglican Primary School Ilogbo-Eremi, Badagry, Morogbo Primary School, Badagry, and Nigerian French Language Village, Badagry.
Wahab emphasized that the enforcement became necessary due to the discovery that the unwholesome commercial activities around the schools contributed to the rise in truancy, hooliganism, and other vices detrimental to learners’ moral and intellectual development.