Lagos denies cancellation of monthly sanitation

The Lagos State Government has clarified reports making rounds on social media that the monthly environmental sanitation  has been outlawed, saying that the policy on the monthly exercise had not been reviewed for now.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the government said the erroneous story which was attributed to the State’s Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, was inaccurate.
Ayorinde said that Adejare was misquoted when he indicated that the restriction of movement may be dispensed with; he did not, in any way, suggest that the monthly sanitation had been outlawed.
Ayorinde said, “While Dr. Adejare did meet with journalists today and indicated that the restriction of movement every last Saturday of the month would ultimately be dispensed with, he did not say the monthly sanitation exercise would no longer hold in Lagos.
“The last two sanitation exercises could not hold due to the JAMB examination in February and the Easter celebration in March. Nevertheless, the Lagos State Government has always encouraged residents to clean their environment and observe hygienic behaviour, without necessarily having to shut the state down.
“It is the wish of Lagos State government to ensure that every part of the state is clean with wastes properly disposed of.”