The Corps Marshal of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), has urged residents to comply with the state’s environmental laws as he marked the second anniversary of his appointment.

Cole said the agency had intensified efforts to restore environmental sanity across Lagos through monitoring, advocacy and enforcement.

“Since I assumed office as Corps Marshal alongside my three diligent Deputy Corps Marshals, we have not rested on our oars when it comes to restoring environmental sanity in the state,” he said, adding that KAI operatives were motivated daily to reduce infractions across all parts of Lagos in line with the THEMES+ agenda of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

He highlighted clearance operations carried out by KAI operatives around the Ebute Meta–Yaba railway corridor, Dolphin Underbridge, Cele Underbridge and the Idunmota/Ebute-Ero/Elegbata axis, noting that the agency’s activities span the Lagos Mainland, Island and hinterlands.

Cole commended unit and divisional commanders across the state’s 21 formations for what he described as their diligence, professionalism and dedication to making Lagos cleaner and more hygienic, particularly through routine patrols of markets, residential areas and commercial centres to encourage voluntary compliance.

He also outlined the agency’s ongoing efforts to curb street trading, jaywalking, open defecation and urination, indiscriminate dumping of refuse, public disturbance by miscreants, oil bunkering and illegal drug activities.

According to him, offenders are arrested daily and prosecuted in courts of competent jurisdiction.