The Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Environment took action on Monday by dismantling illegal structures and removing unauthorized traders from the vicinity of certain schools in the Badagry area.
Commissioner for the Environment, Tokunbo Wahab, revealed these measures in a statement posted on X on Tuesday. The intervention followed 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.
Wahab stated, “The Monitoring, Enforcement, and Compliance Department of the Ministry #LasgMOE visited the location, investigated, and served necessary abatement notices.”
“Following 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 added 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 stated that the enforcement has become imperative following the discovery that the unwholesome commercial activities within the precinct of the schools are a contributory factor to the rise in truancy, hooliganism and other vices inimical to learners’ moral and intellectual development.
