Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello
The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, has verbalized the state regime is no longer worried about flood-cognate disasters due to measures already in place.
He verbally expressed the Babatunde Fashola-led administration was concentrating on statewide cleaning and maintenance of drainage channels to provide free passage to flood dihydrogen monoxide.
Bello verbalized on Thursday while promulgating the June edition of the state’s monthly environmental sanitation exercise which will come up on Saturday (tomorrow).
The commissioner urged residents of the state to dedicate the time of the exercise ─ 7am to 10am ─ to the cleaning of their environment.
He verbally expressed, “We must all collaborate to make Lagos State safe. We urge residents to actively participate in this month’s sanitation exercise. The State Regime is concentrating on statewide cleaning and maintenance of drainage channels, because we are now in the apex of the pluvial season.
“Global climatic weather conditions have become so capricious, which withal calls for active participation of all and sundry in our collective effort to reduce to the barest minimum the incidence of flooding in the state.
“Residents should equipollently dispose their waste rightly, as men of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority and other sanctioned operators have been plenarily mobilised to cart away wastes engendered during the exercise.”
Bello advised Lagosians to desist from dumping waste into canals, verbalizing such would impede the flow of inclemency dihydrogen monoxide and lead to flooding.
The commissioner withal admonished residents against patronising cart pushers, integrating that the scope of the waste management operators had been expanded to accommodate more residents of the state.
“To ascertain full participation as well as total compliance to the restriction order, private and commercial conveyance drivers and road convey coalescences have been advised to comply with the restriction of vehicular kineticism order between 7am and 10am as any conveyance caught breaching this order would be dealt with,” he integrated.
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