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Lagos impounds 215 vehicles, arrests 98 over Ikoyi, VI cleanup

No fewer than 215 vehicles have been impounded with 98 people arrested and prosecuted for various environmental offenses since the commencement of the Ikoyi and Victoria Cleanup exercise.

Those arrested included street traders, who displayed their wares on walkways and road setbacks, those operating illegal car wash centers and auto mobile mechanics who converted public spaces to mechanical workshops as well as some drivers of contravened vehicles who resisted the impoundment of their vehicles.

The Chairman, Special Committee on the Cleanup of IKoyi and VIctoria Island, Mr Tunji Bello, who disclosed this, said that 215 vehicles were impounded from various areas in Ikoyi and Victoria Island for parking in prohibited zones and mechanical workshops located in unauthorized places.

Bello, who is also the State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, explained that those arrested were arraigned before mobile courts which sat at the Safety Arena Mobile Court in Oshodi and another mobile court which sat in Victoria Island during one of the several raids and handed out sentences which included fines.

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According to him, perishable goods among the seized goods were immediately sent to the various orphanages and motherless babies homes spread across the state by the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) while non-perishable items are being kept at the agency’s store at Oshodi pending when a decision will be taken on the seized items.

The chairman added that since the commencement of the exercise on January 10, the Special Committee and its enforcement crew, made up of operatives of the State Task Force on Environmental and Special offenses, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps and the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), have also been conducting daily raids across several streets to clear all shanties and structures on drainage channels as well as occupants of abandoned buildings.

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