The Lagos State Government has demolished the headquarters of a task force operated by the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme at the old gate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The SURE-P office was pulled down by a bulldozer on Saturday.
The Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, Hakeem Adedeji, said the order to demolish the offices came from Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
Adedeji said the governor’s directive must have been informed by the abandonment of the building which had become a hiding place for criminals.
He said, “The reason for the demolition is to the best knowledge of the governor because he was the one who directed that the buildings be pulled down in the interest of the public.
“On getting here, we could not find any Federal Government official inside the building. Rather, we found street urchins.
“There is need to avoid that and that is why we believe that if the building is demolished, no one will use it as a hideout.”
Last month, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, Tunji Shelle, had said the SURE-P task force was illegal and unknown to the party.
Prior to the March and April elections, the task force officials had been at loggerheads with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority over the control of traffic on Federal Government roads in the state.
Shelle said, “I wouldn’t know exactly what SURE-P was all about. It was an illegal thing but I did not want to die so I left it. I will never be part of any criminal tendency.
“I saw so many things but because it was beyond me, I did not want to interfere. We had thePolice and other security agencies and I expected them to handle the situation the way it should be handled.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Sure P was breeding miscreants and thugs for the likes of Obanikoro to distabilize Lagos. I saw them often under one tattered canopy at the toll gate then wearing black Tshirt. Koro should employ them.
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