Lagos demolishes illegal structures under high-tension lines

Lagos State Government has commenced the controlled demolition of shanties and different unauthorised structures located beneath high-tension energy lines successful Ikola, Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area.

The involution followed a caller communal clash successful the country that reportedly claimed the lives of 4 big men and near respective others injured.

The workout is being coordinated by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, successful collaboration with the Lagos State Police Command and the Rapid Response Squad, RRS.

LASEMA said the cognition became indispensable due to the fact that the affected structures were situated wrong the statutory right-of-way of high-voltage transmission lines, exposing occupants and traders to important information hazards.

In a connection issued on Saturday, LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the caller confrontation betwixt members of the Hausa and Yoruba communities had brought renewed attraction to information and biology concerns successful the Ikola area.

He said the incidental besides exposed the dangers posed by the attraction of informal settlements straight underneath the energy in...