Waste: Yaba LCDA launches Environmental Monitoring Corps

The Yaba Local Council Development Authority (LCDA) yesterday inaugurated the Environmental Monitoring Corps to enforce compliance with Lagos State environmental laws.

The LCDA Chairman, Kayode Adejare Omiyale, said the Environmental Monitoring Corps will apply the law strictly, without fair or favour.

Omiyale spoke at the council headquarters in Yaba.

He added: “Our environment is a clear reflection of who we are as a people, it also determines how we are viewed by others in terms of internal and external hygiene.

“We are complimenting the efforts of the state government. We are interested in how our people manage their waste.

“Henceforth, whoever is caught dropping refuse at undesignated places will be made to face the music. Yaba LCDA is considered the cleanliness council in Lagos. It is our determination to maintain the standard so far attained and surpass it as time goes by.

“These corps members will ensure that the residents obey all environmental sanitation laws.”

Omiyale, hours later, presented free exercise books to pupils in 31 public primary schools in the Council.

According to him, it was part of efforts to improve the academic wellbeing of pupils in the council.

Omiyale said: “This administration will never allow any of our pupils drop out of school because of his or her inability to own exercise books to carry out the necessary assignments in the schools.

“During the electioneering, we assured the residents that we shall improve their wellbeing and encourage learning among the children. Our gathering here is to bring the promise to fruition.

“I wish to use this medium to warn our children to stay away from cultism, hooliganism, truancy and other vices.

“Let me also thank our teachers for their dedication to duty, your efforts are unto eternity. Teachers’ rewards are now on earth.”

Dignitaries at the event included a former Chief Whip of the House of Representative, Hon. Wale Oshun; a former Chairman of Old Mainland Local Government, Otunba Tayo Oyemade; the member representing Lagos Mainland I Hon. Adekaiye  (LADO); Council Manager Dr. Kemi Tunde Adefowokan and other distinguished All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders.