Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, has affirmed its readiness to implement all the relevant laws aimed at achieving a cleaner, hygienic, aesthetically respondent environment through total conformity in line with Lagos State Environmental Protection Law.

According to its Executive Secretary, Idowu Mohammed, part of the function of the agency was to monitor and maintain surveillances along the highway, streets and public amenities and to report regularly any breach of the provision of the Environmental Laws to the appropriate enforcement authorities.

Mohammed said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was passionate about the safety of lives and cleanliness of their environment, hence, the directive on the agency to effectively clamp down on all violators of environmental sanitation laws to adequately protect the lives and the environment at large.

She also emphasised on the risk associated with neglecting the use of pedestrian bridges, this she said impeded free flow of traffic and unnecessary loss of lives as a result of hit-and-run by the motorists.

Mohammed while noting that the distance from the pedestrian bridges where arrests could be made by officers of the agency against erring pedestrians wishing to endanger their lives by crossing the highway was pegged at two hundred metres.

She also decried the increase in trading activities on major roads, hawking, illegal activities by road side mechanics, abandoned vehicles, illegal structures on drainages, selling and cooking of food on roads/sidewalks, stressing that all these, constitute a nuisance and traffic gridlock on roads.

The Executive Secretary restated the Agency’s commitment to implementing relevant laws concerning the environment, coupled with constant monitoring of Lagos environs in line with global best practices of enforcement technique, and ensuring statutory punishments were meted out to offenders which woul be upheld at all times in accordance with provision of the Environmental Protection Law twenty-seventeen.