January 30, 2015 – The First Lagos State Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise in the year 2015, with its attendant restriction of human and vehicular movement will be observed between the hours of 7:00am-10am on Saturday 31st January, 2015.
According to the Commissioner for the Environment, Lagosians are urged to troop out in large numbers to actively participate in the State First Sanitation Exercise of the year with the cleaning of their homes, frontage drains and totality of their environment.
Tunji Bello explained that so much waste had been generated within the past few months particularly during the Christmas festivals and New Year Celebrations, as such cleaning must be carried out in all parts of the State.
He urged Lagosians to properly dispose their waste through LAWMA and authorized PSP operators while warning residents who still patronize cart pushers to desist from this illegal act as it is an offense in the State to patronize cart pushers.
The State Commissioner for the Environment emphasized that the State Government remained committed to a clean, hygienic and flood free environment and therefore urged Lagosians to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse into drains and unapproved sites especially now that global warming has broken nation’s barriers and boundaries.
In order to attain total compliance of the restriction order and ensure full participation of Lagosians in the sanitation exercise, Tunji Bello warned interstate Bus Operators, the State Transport Owners and Road Transport Workers Association to comply with the restriction of vehicular movement order between 7.00am-10.00am as any vehicle caught violating this order will be dealt with appropriately, while passengers in such vehicles will also be prosecuted according to the State Sanitation Laws.
He further assured that Law Enforcement Agencies including Nigerian Police and officials from LAWMA, LASTMA and KAI have been fully mobilized to enforce the non-restriction of movement order and warned that violators would be prosecuted according to the State Sanitation Laws.
