DIRT AND FILTH IN LAGOS: UNDERSTANDING THE CLEANER LAGOS INITIATIVE
‘ Residents and motorists, yesterday, raised alarm over increasing heaps of refuse in Lagos, especially along major roads and streets, lamenting that besides the health risk, it is compounding the gridlock in the state. They decried the stench oozing from the refuse dumped on major roads and streets in the state. Residents and motorists told Vanguard that among major roads and streets in the state were currently filled with refuse waiting to be cleared were Lagos-Badagry Expressway specifically Okokomaiko end of the road, Ojuelegba, LASU-Isheri road, Oshodi Apapa Expressway, Mushin, Isolo road, Akanro, Ilasamaja, Mushin Agege Moto Road, Ishaga, Lawanson and others. A resident, Miss. Georgina Ezekiel, while expressing disgust, said: “It is no more Lagos. It is now Ijora-Badia state. Lagos has never been this dirty. I passed through Ojuelegba road yesterday and you needed to see the huge refuse dump along the road.” According to Rose Daniel, “while going out yesterday, I pass...