Governor Ambode demolished SURE-P task force office in Lagos.
Lagos State yesterday demolished the structures that once served as administrative and recruitment office for the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) Taskforce at the old tollgate axis along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
It was learnt Governor Akinwunmi Ambode ordered the immediate demolition of the building which housed the Federal Emergency Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in the state. It was further gathered the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit was directed to demolish the structure last Monday but could not carry out the execute it before yesterday due to some exigencies Before the state turned bulldozer on the building, former governor Babatunde Fashola wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan over use of the building for illegal recruitment of youths at loggerheads with state government officials. Though the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government could not explain the specific status of the officials who claimed to be working for the presidency, the SURE-P youths abandoned the premises after the general elections. Some persons suspected to be miscreants later converted the place for other activities. At the time of filling this report, the miscreants said to be part of the over 5,000 youths recruited by the agency displaced by the demolition were seen hovering around the area. Rubbles and heap of documents used by the agency were sited carted away from the scene by trucks. Confirming the demolition, the Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Hakeem Adedeji, a Superintendent of Police, said it was ordered by the state governor. He said: “The reason for the demolition of this place is to the best knowledge of the governor because he was the one who directed that the buildings should be pulled down for the interest of the public.” Adedeji said he believed that the governor must have issued the directive based on the abandonment and conversion of the facilities into hideout by miscreants. He said: “In fact when we arrived, we couldn’t find any federal government officials inside the building but street urchins. And there is need to avoid that. “That was why we believe that if the building is demolished, no one will convert it for as hideout.”
It was learnt Governor Akinwunmi Ambode ordered the immediate demolition of the building which housed the Federal Emergency Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in the state. It was further gathered the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit was directed to demolish the structure last Monday but could not carry out the execute it before yesterday due to some exigencies Before the state turned bulldozer on the building, former governor Babatunde Fashola wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan over use of the building for illegal recruitment of youths at loggerheads with state government officials. Though the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government could not explain the specific status of the officials who claimed to be working for the presidency, the SURE-P youths abandoned the premises after the general elections. Some persons suspected to be miscreants later converted the place for other activities. At the time of filling this report, the miscreants said to be part of the over 5,000 youths recruited by the agency displaced by the demolition were seen hovering around the area. Rubbles and heap of documents used by the agency were sited carted away from the scene by trucks. Confirming the demolition, the Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Hakeem Adedeji, a Superintendent of Police, said it was ordered by the state governor. He said: “The reason for the demolition of this place is to the best knowledge of the governor because he was the one who directed that the buildings should be pulled down for the interest of the public.” Adedeji said he believed that the governor must have issued the directive based on the abandonment and conversion of the facilities into hideout by miscreants. He said: “In fact when we arrived, we couldn’t find any federal government officials inside the building but street urchins. And there is need to avoid that. “That was why we believe that if the building is demolished, no one will convert it for as hideout.”
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