Lagos resumes monthly environmental sanitation after nearly 10 years

Lagos State Government has reinstated its monthly biology sanitation exercise, bringing to an extremity a suspension that lasted astir a decade.

Residents successful respective parts of the authorities participated successful the workout connected Saturday, with compliance observed successful areas specified arsenic Ikoyi, Obalende, Ikorodu wherever individuals were seen cleaning their surroundings.

The reintroduced programme is present scheduled to tally for 2 hours, from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., representing a simplification from the erstwhile three-hour duration of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

The sanitation workout was primitively suspended successful 2016 aft a tribunal ruling declared the regularisation of question during the workout unconstitutional.

Ahead of its resumption, the authorities authorities had indicated that question would beryllium regulated wrong the workout play to alteration residents transportation retired broad cleaning of their homes, contiguous situation and drainage channels.

Providing further clarification, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, explained that the workout would instrumentality spot connected the past Saturday of each month.

“Following the symbolic flag-off ...