‘New environmental sanitation law for the good of all’

The Special Adviser on Civic Engagement to the Lagos State Governor, Honourable Kehinde Joseph, has said that the new Environmental Management and Protection Law of Lagos State is for the good of all, as it will not just ensure a healthier city but also generate business opportunities.

In a statement yesterday, Joseph said the law was designed to holistically address the challenge of waste management in the State and create opportunity for enterprenuers and business concerns, who have the capacity to mobilize resources to participate in refuse management in the state to do so.

He therefore called on Lagosians to support the Governor ‘s initiative in innovatively tackling the challenge of waste disposal headlong, so as to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment.

The Special Adviser noted that Lagos with about 22million residents requires a dynamic approach, which would involve the residents and waste management consortium playing their assigned roles effectively. Joseph said the new law was not a threat to existing waste managers rather it opened a window of opportunity for more people to come into the different levels of waste collection and disposal in the state.

He disclosed that several thousands of hands would be absorbed into the system thereby reducing unemployment level in the state, stating that the monthly environmental sanitation was cancelled to give way for the new initiative, which now makes sanitation a daily affair.