Lagos govt gives Ojo hospital encroachers seven days to vacate

Another demolition workout whitethorn beryllium looming successful Lagos arsenic the State Informal Space Management Authority, LASISMA, has begun enforcement against traders, squatters and different amerciable occupants of nationalist spaces astir the recently constructed Ojo General Hospital.

The enforcement cognition commenced on Monday around the hospital, located on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, adjacent the LASU-Iba Road junction, with affected occupants fixed 7 days to vacate areas designated arsenic setbacks and corridors for the infirmary and different authorities infrastructure.

The workout began with sensitisation and the issuance of contravention notices, with LASISMA informing that afloat enforcement would travel aft the expiration of the ultimatum.

Speaking with journalists aft the exercise, the General Manager of LASISMA, Oludaisi Oso, said the involution was aimed astatine restoring nationalist spaces astir authorities facilities and ensuring that they remained disposable for their designated purposes.

Oso said the authorization identified respective activities astir the hospital, including an amerciable garbage dump, an unauthorised effect market, nationalist toilets, a wood marketplace and structures occupied by...