VIRAL MAGODO VIDEO: WE GAVE SEIZED FOOD ITEMS TO MOTHERLESS BABIES HOME – LAGESC
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The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has reacted to viral video on social media where its officials enforced environmental laws by seizing food items being hawked by the roadside in the Magodo area of the state.
In a press release signed by Ajayi Lukman, its Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy Unit, LAGESC popularly known as KAI said “the attention of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI has been drawn to a viral enforcement video making the rounds on various social mediums.
“As the premier environmental enforcement Agency domiciled with the Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, it is expedient to set the records straight, in light of the misinformation being peddled about the Agency on social media.
“The viral video depicting our officers conducting a raid of walkways, sidewalks, lay-bys around the Magodo area of the State is a lawful and sanctioned operation by the Agency which came on the backheels of a forwarded petition by the Magodo Residents Association seeking to rid the estate and its environs of illegal street trading.
“The Corps Marshal, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (retd) signed off the operation after the Agency’s intelligence team investigated the huge trend of street trading along the axis in which the traders were found to be in gross violation of State laws, thereby resulting in a enforcement operation undertaken on Tuesday, 26th of September, 2023.
“We must also State in clear terms that the mostly-perishable goods seized on site were confiscated and transmitted to Motherless Babies Homes on the same day with pictorial and documentary evidence to back up, as provided by the State’s environmental laws.
“Also, the Agency wishes to inform further that the State’s environmental laws provides for non-perishable goods confiscated during operations to be placed in secured storage till a court order is obtained for public auction which must be adequately publicised.
“The Corps Marshal reiterates her commitment to ridding the State of environmental nuisances as part of concerted efforts to make Lagos cleaner and habitable for business as enshrined in the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda of Mr. Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.”
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