The Lagos State Government is to introduce a monthly award for the cleanest local government or Local Council Development Area (LCDA), with incentives attached, as part of efforts to drive healthy competition among councils and sustain the state’s re-introduced Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise.
The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Commissioner for the Environment, Tokunbo Wahab, at a strategic meeting convened with all 57 Local Government and LCDA chairmen, alongside selected members of the Lagos State Executive Council, to secure support for the sanitation programme.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had formally launched the re-introduced exercise last month, framing it as a call on Lagosians to take personal responsibility for their immediate environment.
Wahab stated that achieving a cleaner, flood-free and sustainable Lagos would require coordinated action across all tiers of government, pointing to the scale of the challenge with the state generating between 13,000 and 14,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste daily.
Beyond the award scheme, the commissioner outlined a broader implementation framework under which state executive council members, local government chairmen and senior officials will be deployed to designated locations to monitor compliance during sanitation periods. Adding that a dedicated monitoring and enforcement team will also be on ground to ensure effectiveness.
Wahab further directed all chairmen to intensify public enlightenment campaigns on proper waste disposal and discourage residents from dumping refuse on roads, medians, open spaces, drainages and canals.
The commissioner commended the Conference of 57 Chairman, Hon. Sesan Olowa, and all council chairmen for pledging their full support, describing their collaboration as critical to restoring environmental discipline across the state.
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