Lagos Government Shuts Down Marina Mosque

Lagos Government Shuts Down Marina Mosque

Lagos Government Shuts Down Marina Mosque

The Lagos State Government has shut
down Marina’s Workers Mosque on
Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria over poor waste management
and also vowed to shut down filthy
markets across the state.
The government added that it had
declared zero tolerance on
environmental nuisance in the state,
While monitoring the October
edition of the monthly sanitation
exercise in Mainland and Lagos
Island Local Governments,
Commissioner for the Environment,
Dr Samuel Adejare stated that any
filthy market and motor parks in the
state would be shut indefinitely if
they did not put their environment
in proper shape.
Adejare said the declaration of zero
tolerance in Lagos metropolis was to
save the state from disaster resulting
from unkempt environment.
“That is why we ordered the closure
of the mosque for discharging
effluent in the drainage. Marina is
our pride, asset and our heritage. We
cannot allow anyone to mess it up.
This mosque is a temporary building
for worship, but we cannot tolerate
improper waste disposal.
“There is no emotional feeling
attached to it. We cannot allow that
in Central Lagos. You can all see how
they discharged their sewage on the
road. Even God will not accept that
and I will not allow that,” he stated.
He lamented that religious house had
violated the State’s environmental
law, saying that any outfit that
violate the environmental law would
not be spared, while also decrying
the environmental condition of the
Island Central Business Districts, CBD
which was the commercial hub of the
state.
Adejare said the CBD had
degenerated due to the activities of
street traders and indiscriminate
discharge of waste.
“Due to this, we have set-up
taskforce comprising Kick Against
Indiscipline, KAI officers to ensure
that the CBD is well improved upon.
This is our CBD and companies make
so much money from here. They
have to maintain the atmosphere
here.”
“The present administration will
only cooperate with drivers and
market unions that are ready to take
ownership of parks and markets
through proper management of their
environment. We won’t send them
away if they are ready to take
ownership of their environment
through proper cleaning. But if they
are not serious about it, we will
dislodge them and restore sanity in
the areas,” he warned.
“We will shut such park or market
that have environmental challenged.
We cannot allow cholera outbreak.
This (market) is where we buy what
we eat daily. And that was why I
have decided to make Lagos
environment my office and not
Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.
“We are here to make change and
take the state to the next level. On
Ilaje Otumora slum, in Lagos
Mainland Local Government, we are
going to sit down and find solution
to it. In fact one of our drainage
systems that we channeled into the
lagoon has been blocked. So, we are
going to stop that from happening”,
he said
Source: PMNews