Lagos seals off 13 buildings over pollution

Thirteen buildings were on Thursday sealed off by the Lagos State government for discharging sewage into drainage channels. The buildings, situated on Nnamdi Azikiwe Street on Lagos Island, were sealed off by officials of the State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Other Special Offences. Leader of the enforcement team, Kayode Bello, Director, said the enforcement became necessary following incessant complaint from residents.

He said the officials besieged the area before traders could get to the market to open their shops in the buildings. He said all the affected buildings were residential with the ground floor of some of them converted to stores and rented out to traders at Idumota. He also added that the environment in the area has been degraded and defaced with excreta by the traders and residents in some of the houses.
General Manager, LASEPA, Rasheed Shabi, said the agency had issued abatement notices to the affected buildings to abate the nuisance in the area, but that they did not comply with the notices. He also said that several warnings were issued to the occupants and owners of the buildings to comply with the abatement notices issued to them, but said they ignored the government’s directives.
According to him, the affected houses had no toilets, which was why they dumped their excreta in drainage channels. Shabi stated that the sewage being channelled into the drainage channel found their way into the lagoon, thus, killing the aquatic life.



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