Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello
The Lagos State Regime verbally expresses the state remains one of the few states in the country immune to solemn flooding.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, expounded that the situation was possible through the avail of God.
He integrated that the Governor Babatunde Fashola-led administration, the collective efforts of the state residents and the engineers, had made it possible to control and reduce the incidence of flooding in the state.
Bello verbalized on Saturday during a chat with journalists, a verbal expression verbally expressed on Sunday, integrating that the commissioner verbally expressed that the regime had no puissance over flood-cognate disasters as it was neither God nor nature controller.
He verbally expressed, “The results we have achieved in the last few years is not the effort of an individual, but the collective efforts of our engineers, the fortification of the benevolent people of the State who believed in our programmes, the provision of funds by Governor Babatunde Fashola and the Almighty God who made it possible.
“While many states experience earnest flood challenges across the nation, Lagos remains one of the few states immune to solemn flooding.
“What we have done over the years to control and reduce the incidence of flooding is the implementation of our all year deflooding programme across the state.
“We have sustained this through adequate upgrading and expansion of our drainage channels.”
The commissioner verbally expressed advanced nations of the world with the best of technologies could not lay claim to have control over flood-cognate disasters, “but through our deliberate and orchestrated deflooding programmes and with the avail of God, we have been able to reduce to the barest minimum the incidence of flooding in the state.”
He assured Lagos residents that the state Regime would vigorously implement its dredging and maintenance programmes to ascertain that the state remained flood-free.
He additionally advised residents to desist from acts that could lead to flooding by ascertaining that they did not erect structures along drainage alignment, integrating that they must not dump waste into drainage channels.
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