CLEANER LAGOS INITIATIVE WILL PROVIDE EFFECTIVE FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES – COMMISSIONER

The Lagos State Government has called on its citizens to embrace its Solid Waste Management reforms tagged: Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), as it will bring about effective and enduring flood control measures to most parts of the State.

 

The Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare said this recently while briefing newsmen on the programme, noting that that under the initiative, primary, secondary and tertiary drains would be maintained all-year- round while refuse, vegetal growth and silt would be removed from drains to allow for free flow of storm water which will be done based on zonal arrangement across Lagos State.

 

The Commissioner also informed that the CLI would usher in the cleaning and evacuation of all forms of debris and litters from navigable waterways, such as lagoon, creeks, rivers and any such water body through the use of specialized amphibious cleaning equipment/machinery.

 

“No doubt, this initiative has come to change the face of flood management in Lagos State as it offers all-year–round drainage cleaning for effective and efficient flood control system”, he said.

 

He, however, advised Lagosians to embrace this new initiative as it had enormous benefits, some of which include the creation of 40,000 jobs, provision of 600 brand new compactors, 900,000 electronically tracked waste bins, provision of Transfer Loading Stations, Material Recovery Facilities and Engineered Sanitary Landfills as well as Mechanised and Manual street sweeping in addition to effective and efficient drainage maintenance measures.