This month’s environmental sanitation will hold tomorrow between 7am and 10am. There will be restriction, according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Hakeem Ogunbambi, an engineer, advised residents to participate in the exercise, which was not held last month, because of the inauguration of the president and some governors.
While stressing the importance of a clean and hygienic environment towards the promotion of tourism and economic potentials of the state, Ogunbambi urged Lagosians to actively participate in the cleaning of their homes, drains and totality of their environment.
He further stated that apart from this monthly exercise, cleaning the environment should be a daily affair, stressing that human beings daily generate waste which must be daily disposed. “We should also be mindful of our drains as we are now in the peak of the rainy season,” he added.
He emphasised that global climatic condition have continuously affected rainfall patterns across the world as such coastal cities like Lagos are prone to flooding. “This explains why we have intensified our mid-rain deflooding programme that consists of continuous dredging, cleaning and maintenance of drainage channels across the state,” the Permanent Secretary explained.
He implored residents to desist from dumping waste inside drainage channels and shun acts compromising drainage alignment, such as erection of structures on drainage setbacks among others.
Ogunbambi warned residents who still patronise cart pushers to desist from the illegal act, saying that it is inimical to the waste management policy of the state government.
