In this interview with Ugo Aliogo, the Commissioner for Environment, Lagos State, Tunji Bello, speaks on the readiness of the state government for the September flood alert, and the efforts of the …
In this interview with Ugo Aliogo, the Commissioner for Environment, Lagos State, Tunji Bello, speaks on the readiness of the state government for the September flood alert, and the efforts of the state government to combat climate change and other issues. Excerpts:
Today, we have planted close to eight million trees in Lagos. That shows you how active Lagos has been in terms of combating the effects of climate change, so we have been at the forefront. There was a law in the past administration, but we have resumed now and we have taken the front seat, and we are recognised by the UN and several Africa countries in this regard. We are ready to propagate the message of climate change as a way of combating its effects.
Lagos was not flooded in July as some persons were saying. What we experienced when it rained that Friday in July in Lagos was a flash flood. I remember a long time when I was a reporter with St Petersburg Times, in Florida, President George Senior was the President of America then. He was coming to the Tamper Bay area for a function, and I was to report the event for St Petersburg Times, and I was to leave for 9 a.m, then I was informed that it rained heavily that day.
The lagoon has also locked up to your channels so everywhere will be waterlogged. But allow the rain to go down for few hours, say three or four hours, the water will disappear. But if you don’t clean your drainage channels and dredge it properly, the water will be there for two or three days. It has happened to Lagos before, but it is not happening now. The following day the flood was not in the drainage channels because they are functional. It was not flooding, but it was flash flood.
The Director-General, NIHSA Clement Eze said there would be worst flood in Lagos, maybe in September. What is the preparation from the Ministry of Environment regarding the September flood alert given by the NIHSA? So Alausa, Maryland, Ikeja GRA, and Ojota are very far from the Lagoon levels. So tertiary drainage will discharge to secondary and secondary will link up with the primary channels.
Sir, Lagos State is facing huge deforestation challenges due to huge urbanisation activities. What is the ministry doing to reclaim the lost natural habitat?
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