Wahab’s war on the waterways environment, infrastructure
” That shift alone would save government enormous resources, freeing personnel and equipment currently spent tearing down illegal structures for drainage expansion, maintenance, waste management and environmental restoration instead.
For years, the city has paid the price for the absence of that discipline: indiscriminate construction on drainage alignments, refuse dumped straight into canals, illegal structures erected where water is supposed to flow, developments that ignore environmental requirements altogether.
ENFORCEMENT IS NOT THE ENEMY One of the most persistent obstacles to environmental governance in Lagos is a simple, corrosive idea: that enforcement is inherently anti-people.
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