Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has said monthly environmental sanitation will be reintroduced in the state.
Wahab said this in a 21-second clip shared on the State ministry of environmental Update page on X.
According to the commissioner, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the State Executive Council havd approved the reintroduction of the monthly exercise.
Wahab also added that Governor Sanwo-Olu is expected to announce the sanitation, which would commence in July.
In the clip, Wahab, who spoke in Yoruba language said, “Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the state executive council have approved the re-introduction of the monthly sanitation.
“The governor will announce it officially for the exercise to commence this month.”
The monthly exercise was cancelled during former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s tenure in 2016.
The then Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, in a statement, explained that the decision to cancel the monthly exercise followed a resolution adopted at the State Executive Council meeting.
“Lagos has grown exponentially with the attendant environmental problems associated with managing 20 million people. The environmental laws and procedures being practised in the state have not been able to match the growth and the dream of a 24-hour economy,” Ayorinde had then said.
However, the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation may largely be connected to the recent flooding that affected some major parts of Lagos due to the rainy season.
