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Written by Chukwuma Okparaocha, Lagos Sunday, 05 February 2012
The residents of various parts of Lagos State have complemented the state government’s efforts in ensuring that drainages in the state are well prepared for the coming of the rains.
According to a survey visit by Property and Environment to some communities in the state, residents could be seen cleaning up blocked gutters with various implements such as rakes, spades and shovels.
In places such as Ajegunle, Ketu, and their environs, many residents came out en masse during the recent
sanitation exercise in the state with a view to cleaning their drainages which had been stacked with various items, such as bags of table water, plastic bottles and various other items.
“The government cannot possibly touch every vicinity in the state, it therefore behoves on everyone to ensure that the drainage systems, especially those in front of their houses are well cleaned and dredged. The memories of the floods of last year, which became aggravated as a result of poorly managed drainage systems, are still very much fresh in our minds. We wouldn’t want a recurrence of that horrible incident,” this was the view of Mr Richmond Esiri, a resident of Apapa-Ajegunle area of the state, in a chat with Property and Environment.
The efforts of such residents could be said to be complimentary to those of the state government which has, in recent time, embarked on massive dredging and cleaning of drainages in the state, including channelisation of about 370 out of the total 623 primary and secondary schools, which have been identified to be prone to flood.
Some of the places already touched by the Lagos State government in its quest to ensuring that the kind floods recorded in 2011 which claimed over 20 lives do not recur include Iyana Ipaja, and Egbeda area of the state.
“We cannot control the amount of rains that will come, but the most important thing is that we have the capacity to manage whatever rains that come,” said the Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Tunji Bello, recently, when he inspecting some of the drainage cleaning exercises carried out in the state.
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