Tajudeen Adebanjo
LAGOS State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and State Safety Commission (LSSC) have taken their sensitisation on physical distancing and basic hygiene to Ikorodu. Both agencies donated relief materials to residents.
At the sensitisation at Farm Settlement in Odongunyan, Ikorodu, each of the groups were in classrooms of not more than 10.
LASEPA’s General Manager Dr. Dolapo Fasawe said the donation was to complement efforts of the state by providing relief to indigent residents.
She said: “In LASEPA, what people know us for is enforcement and sanctioning of recalcitrant persons or individuals but, unknown to many is the fact that before we issue sanctions to defaulters, we would have explored and exhausted all forms of dialogue and mutual reasoning.
“And as such, this gesture speaks volumes to our level of civility because we identified the need to carry people along, sensitise them and make available to them, relief materials that would make it easy for them to continue to stay at home if there is no compelling need to go out.”
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LSSC’s Director-General Mr. Lanre Mojola said the idea to bring the campaign to the grassroots was borne out of genuine love for residents to keep safe, especially Lagosians those in the hinterlands.
Mojola urged participating groups to embrace the ‘Mask-Up’ campaign championed by the government, stressing that if Lagosians adhere to distancing and basic hygiene – regular hand washing, sanitisers, in addition to face masks, the fight against the pandemic would be won.
Decrying the continuous disregard for physical distancing and closure of religious centres, he said the government would not relax its enforcement drive and would clamp down on erring groups or persons
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