By Motolani AbdulGafar
Ejigbo local council authority has urged the residents to maintain environmental protection by ensuring that their drains are well desilted to control flood.
The residents were advised to prepare ahead of heavy rain downpour to save the community from the recurrent flood.
The Supervisory Councillor for Environment, Mr. Femi Ibile, gave the advice in a chat with ECHONEWS, noting that continuous downpour will soon start.
He said the delay of the incessant downpour this season is unusual, warning that it may be heavier when it starts.
According to him, the challenge of flooding faced during rainy period is caused by mismanagement of waste, saying the residents indiscriminately disposes of wastes in the drains.
He informed that the local government has been making more efforts to rehabilitate more drains in the local council area.
He warned the residents, marketers and passersby to desist from disposing of used plastic bottles, empty sachets and others into the drains to avoid erosion and diseases.
“As community inhabitants, it takes nothing from us to ensure our area is safe and habitable in all ramifications. That’s why we keep reinstating different means by which we can control flood and we hope that the community would comply with them.
“On our part, we ensure that environmental services are carried out within the community and also ensure easy accessibility of PSP to avoid dumping of refuse in unapproved areas.”
He said the LAWMA street captain co-ordinators and other assigned captains have been going around the communities to enlighten and persuade residents on reasons they need to patronise PSP.
