Activities of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), Brigade, which was launched with fanfare in Ikeja, in 2004 cleaner environment, particularly in Lagos metropolis, seem to be parking into insignificance.

NewAge observed that men of the KAI statement at various locations in the state are no longer visible except at the KAI headquarters at Alausa, Ikeja.

A good case study of the areas where KAI men could be seen in twos or three is under the bridge at Fadeyi, Onikan and Ikeja under bridge which was a “Sacred place” when KAI operation was visible and effective.

The situation in this area has now changed as barriers meant to prevent people from crossing the road have been remove by unknown people who prefer to cross the road, ignoring the pedestrian bridges.

One noticeable development is the return of aggressive unemployed youth at the stat secretariat main gate. The KAI have not allow them to sell, and sometimes raid them seizing their cards as a deterrent to stop hawking credit cards within or outside the seat of government.

It was observed that dirtiness in some area in the city has returned to the pre- KAI days as people are now free to urinate anywhere without the fear of arrest or molestation by KAI Brigade officers.

NewAge investigations for the loss of control of the brigade showed that incessant attacks from the military men and some irate public who do not want to shed their old style of living.

For instance, the KAI command at Oshodi had attempted to stop people trading on the railway line, to prevent the trend that has remained intractable for long but failed in all its attempts to carry out major operations against rail line trading because most of the traders on the rail line ate women and their husbands are military men.

Investigations revealed further that the face-off between the Federal Government and Lagos Government at the latter part of Bola Tinubu’s tenure over who control the federal highways in the city frustrated KAI interest in sanitizing highway setbacks across the metropolis.

The KAI zonal commander of Oshodi command, Ganiyu Obe once complained that his brigade has been going through some difficulties as a result of the bickering between the federal and Lagos Government in the recent past.

According to him, efforts to enforce sanitation laws on traders at Oshodi has been receiving some resistance by some among the traders who confront t the KAI men by demanding to know on whose authority they were working on.