The Lagos State Government has announced that the monthly environmental sanitation will be observed on Saturday. It also said that human and vehicular restrictions between 7 and 10am of every last Saturday of the month is intact. This is in spite of the order made by the High Court Judge which the State said it had appealed through the Attorney-General’s Office. Justice Mohammed Idris had ruled on March 16 that the government had no right to ban Lagosians from moving about during sanitation. Speaking yesterday, Environment Commissioner, Tunji Bello, said the ruling will not affect the enforcement of restrictions during sanitation. He warned that anyone found floating the order will be liable to arrest. The commissioner appealed to Lagosians to respect the court ruling, as sanitation is aimed at attaining a clean and sustainable environment in the state, which is in the overall interest of the people. Bello said it was an incontrovertible fact that a clean and hygienic environment is a sine-qua-non for the socio economic well being of Lagosians. He explained that besides the monthly sanitation, the cleaning of environment should be an everyday affair, stressing that, human beings generate waste daily. .
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