Akinpelu decentralises sanitation exercise across 7 wards, deepens cleaner Alimosho LG

By Kazeem Akande

Alimosho Local Government in Lagos State has decentralised the monthly environmental sanitation exercise across the seven wards that make up the local government to deepen cleaner community.

The Council Chairman Mr Johnson Akinpelu, gave the disclosure on Saturday during the state monthly Environmental Exercise that the exercise would now be observed at the various ward levels across the local government.

“Unlike the usual tradition where management staff and other stakeholders move together to cover different parts of the local government, we are now introducing a ward-based approach to the sanitation exercise.

“Under the new arrangement, legislators, supervisors and other relevant officers in each ward are responsible for coordinating the exercise and mobilising residents within their respective areas.

“This approach is designed to ensure wider coverage, stronger community participation and more effective results,” Akinpelu said.

According to the Chairman, at the management level, we realised that with the two compactors at our disposal, we cannot really achieve a satisfactory exercise at a stretch.

“We therefore concluded that it was necessary to decentralise the exercise and rent compactors for the other five wards to enable us to carry out the exercise simultaneously.

“With this, the progress we recorded today was encouraging across the whole of Alimosho local government at once.

“We have resolved as an administration to take environmental issues very seriously,” he added.

The council chairman added decentralised approach would also provide an opportunity for residents to take greater ownership of the sanitation exercise.

He noted that stakeholders at ward-level would be able to engage directly with their communities in the exercise.

Akinpelu said that the active participation of legislators, supervisors, officers and residents would help to extend the reach of the exercise beyond what could have been achieved through a single centralised operation.

He reiterated that maintaining a clean environment requires collective responsibility and sustained action.

He therefore called on residents, traders, community leaders and other stakeholders to continue supporting the monthly environmental sanitation.

“This efforts will help us keep our surroundings clean, properly disposing of waste and complying with relevant environmental regulations as the local government intensifies its drive towards a cleaner, healthier and safer community,” he said.(NAN)