By Kazeem Ugbodaga

The Lagos State Government has again emphasised that the Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise has not been cancelled and that restriction of human and vehicular movement across the state between the hours of 7.00am -10.000am also remains in force.

The Commissioner for  Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, who announced this in a press statement also urged residents to troop out in large numbers and participate actively in the sanitation by cleaning their homes, gutters, drains as well as their frontages,  emphasizing that the period of environmental sanitation was not meant for any social and sporting engagements but for a serious cleaning exercise.

He advised residents of the State to desist from dumping waste arbitrarily into the drainage channels and canals in order to attain a flood-free Lagos.

He also warned residents who still patronize cart pushers to desist from the illegal act.

Adejare re-assured the people of the State that government was determined and committed to attain a sustainable environment, urging Lagosians to key in into the governor’s vision of a cleaner Lagos by abstaining from bad environmental habits such as open defecation and urination, littering the highways.