The Oyo State Government, on Sunday, criticized the construction of shops and shanties in unauthorized places.
The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resource, Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, condemned the practice during an official monitoring of Lagelu and Egbeda Local Government Council Areas.
According to a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade in Ibadan, the state capital, Mogbonjubola, the state government “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 been carried out, with quit notices issued to the owners of illegal shops and shanties in the area.
In another development, building contractors in the state have been instructed to stop depositing their construction tools and materials on major roads in the metropolis.
Mogbonjubola, during the official monitoring, around Idi-Arere in the Ibadan metropolis, discovered the trend, where traffic on major roads is being distorted, as a result of construction materials and equipment, deposited by the roadside.
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.
Mogbonjubola called on building contractors, particularly those in the habit of depositing sand, granite, pollutants, equipment, and other materials on roads, as well as car wash owners and others, to abide by the ministry’s regulations regarding pollution or face the wrath of the law.
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