Ogun seals off 36 filling stations

No fewer than 36 filling stations in Ogun State have been sealed following the discovery that they contravened the State’s town planning laws.

The affected filling stations located in Ota and Abeokuta were found to have altered their approved building plans without seeking necessary permissions from relevant government agencies.

Speaking on the development, the Senior Special Assistant to the State Governor on Physical Planning, Mr. Oladele Osifade, recalled that the Ministry of Physical Planning in the State had last month embarked on a building plan verification and approval auditing of filling stations in the two towns, during which the anomalies were discovered.

He said following the discovery, the Ministry served owners of the filling stations contravention notices, adding that this was followed up with a reminder notice and a seven day notice of sealing. Osifade lamented that rather than taking steps to regularise their documents, some of them even went ahead to erect additional pumps in flagrant disobedience of town planning laws of the State.

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