LASG serves stop-work order on Magodo green-belt buildings

Gov Sanwo-Olu

Officials from the Drainage Enforcement and Compliance Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Environment on Thursday visited the flood-prone green belt between the Magodo Phase 1 and Phase 2 housing schemes to serve a stop-work order on the owners of buildings under construction on the setback of the green belt.

During the visit, the officials, including Samson Bankole, Moses Ogunlabi, Remi Yusuf, Olayinka Tijani and Balogun Odedina, were seen marking buildings that were constructed on the setback of the green belt, located in a vast gorge separating Magodo GRA Phases 1 and 2, in the Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area of the state.

The team lead, Bankole, while carrying out the order, said the buildings were on a floodplain, adding that the whole area was a gorge reserved for heavy downpour.

“It is not right for a building to be located here; this building is already tilting. We have given them a contravention notice before because the building under construction is on a floodplain and it shouldn’t be there. This place is reserved for heavy downpour.

“When we saw a fault in this building that is being constructed on the setback, we gave them issues and brought a letter for them to stop working. When next we come back here, it will be something that you won’t like and not to talk of those that want to build right where the canal is,” Bankole said.