The Lagos State Government on Monday July 02, 2025 urged marketmen/women and all residents to keep their environment clean and imbibe good environmental sanitation and hygiene practices.
The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab made this known while receiving the founder/CEO of Kokun Foundation Mr. Olukokun Adepeju who led some widows and volunteers on a road show and sensitization visit to his office Quadrangle, Alausa, Secretariat saying everyone must be on the same page with the government for a sustainable environment.
“The Clean Market Initiative, I am glad Kokun himself led this march. We, as a government, can’t just do enough without the residents’ support. So I implore you all to keep doing this (Clean Market sensitisation) until we get all our people to be on the same page with the government on environmental hygiene. Cleanliness is next to godliness. That’s what all our religious books tell us, ” he said.
He averred that the present administration is determined to continually promote a clean and healthy environment and encourage community participation in maintaining a clean environment and waste management to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks in the state.
He went on to encourage the residents to 1imbibe good environmental sanitation as a way of life, as such residents must clean their homes, surroundings and drainages, while waste management officials are always available to collect their waste and dispose of it properly.
He reiterated that residents should desist from dumping their wastes on the roads, road median/setback, open spaces, canals and avoid open urination/defecation, saying that the government would continue to enforce and prosecute defaulters according to the environmental laws of the state.
He also urged traders to stop selling their wares on the road; rather, they should move into the markets to continually promote a clean, healthy, safe, flood-free, and sustainable environment.
The Commissioned said “On behalf of the Lagos State Government, we appreciate this laudable initiative. Words alone are not enough to express how we feel about this clean-up market sensitisation initiative carried out by Kokun Foundation, so on behalf of everyone here, I want to say thank you very much and don’t let it stop, keep sending the message across to everyone you know. Keep telling them about maintaining a good environmental sanitation lifestyle,” he said
In response, the founder/CEO of Kokun Foundation, Mr. Olukokun Adepeju,
He said the group has gone to various markets to sensitise them on maintaining a clean environment and pledged that the Foundation would continue to sensitise market women and men to continue to inculcate the culture of engaging in environmental sanitation always, as well as endeavour to dispose of waste responsibly.