Local Councils Need To Collaborate With State Govt To Confront Environmental Challenges – Tokunbo Wahab

Lagos State Government on Sunday restated the need for all Local Governments/ Local Council Development Areas to collaborate with the State to confront environmental challenges through continuous enforcement and sustained advocacy.

The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Barr. Tokunbo Wahab, laid the emphasis while addressing the media after an inspection tour to Savage/Elegbata Drainage channel around Olowogbowo/ Apongbon axis in Lagos Island, adding that the state is determined to proffer lasting solution to the problem of flooding in Lagos Island and Environs which poses serious threat to lives and properties in the area.

Wahab said the team had to visit the Savage/Elegbata Drainage channel for a solution to open the drainage outfall towards discharging into the Lagoon effectively adding that the out fall was blocked as a result of an ongoing road construction in the the area.

He said it was disheartening to see how human bad behaviours have destroyed the roads and other infrastructure put in place by the government saying LGs/ LCDAs are very culpable for the destruction of these infrastructure because they have allowed and looked away from various unsanitary activities of the residents on the state of the roads.

Wahab stressed that during the inspection, it was observed that the people in the community were entrenched in bad behaviours, saying that Government will not rest but would continue to ramp up the enforcement and advocacy approach.

The team visited the Savage/Elegbata Drainage Channel which cut across Cole Street, Savage Lane, George Street, Abu Lane, Apongbon underbridge and Olowogbowo area.