Oyo govt issues quit notice to owners of illegal structures

Oyo State Government, on Sunday, faulted the construction of shops and shanties in unauthorised places.

The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resource, Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, condemned the act during official monitoring of Lagelu and Egbeda Local Government Council Areas in the state.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade in Ibadan, who “frowned at the rate at which illegal structures sprang up in unauthorised places. This is alarming.

“The staff of the ministry should immediately issue evacuation notices to erring owners along Carlton Gate Estate, Chief Kolapo Isola Estate through Akobo Ojurin, Iyana Church, Ibadan.”

The directive has consequently been carried out since the owners of the unlawful businesses and shantytowns in the area have received the quit notices.

Additionally, the state’s building contractors have been instructed to stop leaving their tools and supplies for construction deposited on the main thoroughfares in the city.

While conducting official surveillance in the Ibadan metropolitan area’s Idi-Arere neighbourhood, Mogbonjubola noticed a pattern in which construction debris and machinery are causing traffic on main thoroughfares to become twisted.

The commissioner condemned the acts and expressed the state government’s disposition against the trend.

“Government is spending huge amounts of money constructing roads and drainages. We would not fold our arms, watching the notable legacies in our environment to be eroded by nonchalant attitudes of individuals or groups in the name of whatever construction,” he said.

He reiterated that the government would henceforth sanction culprits, placing construction equipment on metropolitan roads.

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