Commissioner urges Lagosians to maintain good sanitary environment
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By Chidinma Agu
Lagos, Nov, 14, 2016 (NAN) The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Babatunde Adejare, on Monday called on Lagosians to maintain good sanitary and clean environment.
Adejare made this call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to him, maintaining clean environment is the only way to avoid being in confrontation with environmental law enforcement task force.
“The ember months are here again.
“As the yuletide approaches, people should endeavour to dispose waste properly, cultivate and maintain good sanitary attitude.
“Nobody should contribute to the degrading of the environment as this is the only way one can avoid being object of environmental law enforcement,’’ Adejare said.
The commissioner restated that the State Government was committed to its policy on cleaner and sustainable environment.
He said that the government was also committed to the removal of all environmental infractions.
Adejare said that the government would not relent in bringing about a sustainable environment and enhancing aesthetic beautify of the state.
He said that the government had pursued with vigour, its policy on cleaner and sustainable environment through dogged application of its all-year-round de-flooding programme.
Adejare said that in greening the environment, the state had planted over 800 trees including 700 coconuts along Lekki-Epe Express way and another 100 trees at Orile Agege LCDA.
According to him, the importance of trees in our environment cannot be overemphasised.
He said the government had continued to manage trees planted in the state by pruning 56 trees and felling seven to improve the aesthetics of the Environment. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Ajide
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