Following the downpour of Friday night in
Lagos, the state government yesterday
disclosed strategies it has adopted to ensure
the state is free from flooding this year.
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Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello,
disclosed this during the January edition of the
monthly sanitation exercise monitored in
Ifelodun Local Council Development Area, LCDA,
with the Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, and the Special
Adviser to the Governor on Works and
infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson, in
attendance.
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Bello said that the strategies were already
ongoing would be intensified in few weeks, as
the rainy season gets closer.
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We will do more of what we did last year in
2014.
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The strategies include pre-rainy season
cleaning, mid-rainy season cleaning and post-
rainy season cleaning”, he said.
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”We will sustain this. Our plans are already on
ground. And we are ready to work towards it
this year to ensure that Lagosians enjoy a flood
free 2014″.
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”We are ready to start rolling. We have started
the cleaning and we have deployed all the
relevant agencies especially officials of the
Emergency Flood Abatement Department,
EFAD.
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You will begin to see some of them on the road.
In the next few weeks, we will commence major
de- silting of the drainage and canals in the
state.”
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