LASG charges Oshodi-Isolo residents on cleaner environment
By Rasaq Adebayo
The Lagos State Government has urged the residents of Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area (LGA) to be conscious of their environment by keeping it clean always.
Addressing the residents during her working visits to the local government area and the two LCDAs (Ejigbo and Solo), the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke charged them to key into the Lagos State Government Zero tolerance for dirty environment and blockage of drains.
According to the commissioner, the visit was part of the effort to increase awareness with radical advocacy on the government’s policy on environment.
Sensitising the residents on how to manage their waste properly and keep their environment neat and tidy, the commissioner charged them to always keep their environment clean.
During the tour of the local government area, the commissioner monitored the desilting and evacuation of silt from drains within the communities.
“Water and Asphalt are enemies. Each time the drainage gets filled with refuse, flood extends to the main road, thereby washing off the Asphalt and weakening the road. Since good roads ar essential amenity which we all can’t do without, it has become important for you and I to play our part. I therefore urge the tenements, marketers and residents generally, to clear their surrounding and desilt the drainage close to them as at when due. When the refuse is properly packed, you should then call on the Local Council to cart it away”.
The commissioner further called on the Environmental Services Officers to be up and doing, and serve Abatement Notice to whoever refuses to tidy up their environment.
Arobieke also revealed that the Executive Governor of Lagos State, H.E. Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is passionate about good roads and clean environment, hence, he is clearing primary and secondary drains around the State.
She urged the residents to support the Government of the day by playing their part, saying refuse should be properly sorted from the source.
She added that plastic bottles/ nylon, glass bottles, cans and perishable items should be bagged separately, so as to support Sanwo-Olu’s Waste-To-Wealth Initiative.
