Lagos State Government, through the Office of Public-Private Partnerships, will today hold a stakeholders’ forum on environmental, ecological and social challenges with residents of Lekki Free Trade Zone.
The forum, which is being organised by Global Impact Environmental Consulting (GIEC) Ltd, is to help the government develop a high level safeguards template for the developments springing up along the Lagos FTZ, to tackle environmental, ecological and social challenges along the Lekki Free Zone Corridor.
GIEC Managing Director Dr. Babatunde Osho said the forum was to inform stakeholders about the imminent commencement of the assessment with a view to developing necessary instruments to mitigate against environmental, ecological and social challenges that might be thrown up in future.
“The zone boasts of local and foreign investments running into several billions of dollars, among which are the largest oil refinery in Africa, a fertiliser plant, petrochemical plant, a sub-sea gas pipeline project under construction and the largest deep-seaport in West Africa, also under construction, and the newly approved Lagos International Airport, all of which are primed to open up access for export to West Africa and beyond,” he said.