Lagos State Government has vowed to demolish part of a new housing estate obstructing the Iya Alaro stream and canal near Ojota-Maryland axis of the state.
The state’s commissioner of environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, who disclosed this at the monthly inter-agency interactive session of the ministry of environment stressed that the government will carry out the demolition to serve as a deterrent to others violating the state environmental laws.
He added that an aerial tour of the state revealed a mixed report of the environment, noting that, “on one side, the overall picture reveals a state of natural aquatic splendour that would be the envy of a city like Dubai, while on the other side, there are instances of environmental degradation.”
Adejare explained that as part of Governor Ambode administration’s determination to deliver an aesthetically safe, beautiful and healthy state to Lagos by its 50th anniversary, the popular Olushosun landfill site will soon give way.
He said the new thinking of the government is to consolidate on its waste to wealth programme by harnessing plastic waste from the landfills for recycling on a large scale.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring Authority (LASPEMA) is set to embark on a public advocacy and awareness campaign aimed at sensitising the residents on their responsibilities toward making the environment more people friendly.
The acting general manager of LASPEMA, Engineer Olarenwaju Kazeem, said that the planned advocacy and public enlightenment will target car wash operators as well as others and hoped to achieve this by making public its mode of operations.
