Lagos Reconsiders Restriction Of Movement During Sanitation

Incumbent Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu may revert to the restriction of movement of vehicles and persons for the purpose of environmental sanitation every last Saturday of the month.

However, as the administration had promised to be a listening one, the State Government has created a poll on its social media handles on Facebook and Twitter to sample the opinions of Lagosians.

The poll, which was set up around 4pm on Saturday, had already attracted over 5,500 votes, 226 comments and 152 shares as of 5.45pm

About 79 per cent of participants voted in favour of reverting to the last Saturday of the month as Environmental Sanitation Day while 21 per cent voted against it.

The filthy state of Lagos was one of the factors that was said to have led to the defeat of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who had given exclusive rights of waste disposal to a firm, Visionscape.

Following his defeat, the House of Assembly passed a resolution demanding that the Lagos State Waste Management Agency be in charge of waste disposal in the state.

Environmental Sanitation Day was introduced by the Muhammadu Buhari/Tunde Idiagbon junta in the early 1980s and successive military and democratic governments continued with it.

However, Governor Ambode stopped it following an order by the Lagos State division of the Court of Appeal in 2016 which ruled that it was illegal for the state government to arbitrarily restrict the movement of people without an enabling law in place.

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