RESPITE may just be underway for the long-suffering people living on Gafar Street, Igando-Ikotun LCDA, as the Lagos State Government has sent some of its officials to look into the matter.
This is coming less than five days after a Punch investigation had revealed how lives, properties, and sources of livelihood of the people in the area were being affected by the worsening environmental conditions of the place.
When PUNCH Metro reached out to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Drainage and Water Resources, Joe Igbokwe, he promised to send some officials to look into the matter.
He said, “What I will do is to send somebody to the place to go and verify and find out what is going on because we have to have a report. Meanwhile, I won’t want to say anything now until I see it.
“We have such things all over Lagos. Sometimes, it’s erosion from the sea for those of them living very close to the Atlantic Ocean or lagoon eating deep into people’s environment but we are dealing with it.”
