Ojo General Hospital: LASISMA Don Give Encroachers Seven Days to Pack Their Load

For Ojo General Hospital area, Lagos, government don finally bring calendar come table for traders, squatters and other people wey allegedly occupy spaces reserved for the new hospital: seven days to comot before enforcement go start. The Lagos State Informal Space Management Authority (LASISMA) issue the ultimatum during a sensitisation and enforcement exercise around the hospital along Lagos-Badagry Expressway, near LASU-Iba Road Junction.

LASISMA General Manager, TPL Daisi Oso, explain say the exercise na to reclaim road setbacks and statutory corridors around public infrastructure. Officials reportedly serve contravention notices to affected occupants, giving them seven days to vacate before further enforcement action. So, for anybody wey dey think say “make I wait small, government fit forget,” LASISMA don apparently say: set reminder, because this one get countdown.

Hospital Perimeter Don Turn Market, Shanties and Refuse Zone

According to LASISMA, the entire perimeter of the Ojo General Hospital don suffer encroachment, with activities reportedly including illegal refuse dumping, an unauthorised fruit market, public toilets, a planks market and shanties. Government say these activities no fit continue around a major public health facility because dem fit affect physical order, public health and security.

The authority also put special emphasis on access. Imagine ambulance dey rush carry patient enter hospital, only to meet roadside stalls, goods, structures and other obstacles blocking the way. LASISMA say road setbacks and spaces reserved for public institutions cannot simply become private business extensions, even if the business don already establish “permanent customer base.”

Seven Days Don Start Counting

LASISMA say the first stage no be immediate demolition but sensitisation and service of contravention notices. The affected occupants get seven days to comply, after which enforcement officers are expected to return and take further action. In other words, government don give the encroachers one final opportunity to pack voluntarily before enforcement machinery potentially enter the picture.

The authority also says the operation around Ojo General Hospital forms part of a wider Lagos campaign against illegal occupation of public setbacks and statutory corridors. Daisi Oso reportedly said the government wants people to do business in spaces designated for commercial activities rather than converting road setbacks and areas reserved for public institutions into informal markets.

For now, the big question na wetin go happen when the seven-day deadline reach. Will everybody comot peacefully, or will enforcement officers meet empty promises and stubborn structures? Government says it plans to redevelop and properly manage the spaces surrounding the hospital after the illegal occupations are cleared. OGM News Pidgin go keep eyes on Ojo General Hospital because this seven-day countdown fit soon produce another major Lagos gbas-gbos.