Responsibilities
LAGOS STATE ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION CORPS (LAGESC) WAS ESTABLISHED TO:
- Ensure the general cleanliness of the environment in the state;
- Educate the entire populace of the state on environmental sanitation matters;
- Prevent the erection of illegal structures on walkway, drains, pathways, road verges, medians and pedestrian bridges in the state;
- Prevent the selling and cooking of food on roads or sidewalks;
- Prevent auto mechanics from operating on roadsides
- Ensure that the general habit of environmental cleanliness is maintained and sustained;
- Inform the appropriate authorities when the need to evacuate miscreants and mentally deranged people arises;
- Give prompt information on dead bodies to the official of the Lagos State Ministry of Health of any of the State’s Local Government Area;
- Arrest any person who commits any offence under the New Environmental Sanitation Law, 2017;
- Assist the PUMAU by ensuring that premises are compliant with the Public Utilities Levy;
- Ensure that commercial premises are in possession of a valid waste collection contract; and
- Implement the enforcement of the provisions of the Law and the directives of the Honorable Commissioner in respect of the Law.