Makinde orders demolition of buildings encroached on school lands

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has ordered the demolition of buildings that have encroached on the lands of schools across the state.

Makinde ordered this directive on Tuesday.

He gave the directive shortly after he visited some schools in the state.

He said that owners of structures that have encroached on the lands of schools across the state have been issued a one-week ultimatum.

He maintained that owners of shops built into the perimeter fences of public schools in the state should to pull down the shops within one seek.

He added that all trading activities within school premises should be stopped.

Makinde while speaking said, “The entrance is almost blocked by people who have their shops very close to the entrance of the school, which is not conducive for learning. So, we have gone round and what we are saying is that if you have anything attached to the fence of a school, you must remove it.

“We are going to give them about a week to remove those things. They should clear them so that when our children come back to school, we will know they are coming into an environment conducive to learning.

“Also, we have taken the opportunity to look at the situation with solid waste management. You can see most medians have become dumpsites but this has to stop.

“Where we have single carriage roads, you don’t see people dump their waste by the roadside. How come they have made the medians the dumpster?

“So, we will, again, go back to the drawing board because something is not obviously working with the architecture that we have in place.

“We are working to look into what has to be done next to have the kind of environment that we really want to be proud of.”