The Lagos State Government says the reintroduction of the monthly sanitation exercise is a shift in its approach to addressing a long-standing environmental challenge.
The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab in a televised interview today said the new strategy focuses on mobilizing grassroots support while avoiding disruptions that could paralyze the city.
According to him, over the past decade, despite legal victories including a Court of Appeal ruling, the government’s previous strategy of halting enforcement to allow cultural change to occur naturally did not produce the intended results.
Wahab said the government is collaborating with unions and local government authorities to entrench active cultural re-engineering to ensure sustainable impact.
He said the ultimate goal is to foster citizen-led change, moving away from a top-down enforcement model toward collective responsibility, where residents take ownership of maintaining environmental standards.
Wahab also submitted that addressing existential problems in Lagos requires a fundamental shift in culture, with citizens leading the effort to create a cleaner and more sustainable city.
Commissioner For Environment and Water Resources, Honorable Tokunbo Wahab (@tokunbo_wahab) laid out a significant shift in the Lagos State Government’s approach to a pressing existential challenge.
Reflecting on the past decade, the Honorable Commissioner admitted that despite… pic.twitter.com/wVUz91gURF
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