Environmental Police
Recently I read an article by a foremost writer in the Nigerian sphere, an environmentalist, who was talking about the need for the Nation to have an environmental police. Not only did I support the call for this, I want to use this medium to clearly state my concerns. National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) is the body charged with taking care of our environmental needs, together with States environmental laws and agencies. So far the degradation faced by most of our roads and street with waste is nothing but appalling. It has gotten so bad to the extent that nobody cares anymore. Refuse are dumped nonchalantly on our roads day in day out with nobody doing anything about it. Using Lagos under Governor Ambode as an example, the situation has gotten worst. LAWMA and the public-private partnership have not yielded any tangible result. we are back to where we were under Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I usually ply the Apapa-Oshodi expressway and I