Monitoring & Enforcement Services

All these 50 staff are splinted into 3 sub sections:

• Monitoring.
• Enforcement
• Compliance.

The Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance department is charged with the responsibility of ensuring regular monitoring of the State of the Environment, enforcing Environmental Laws on defaulters/violaters and promotes strict compliance by the citizenry of Lagos State. It is also charged with the responsibility of enlightening the public especiallly market men and women on the best environmental practices in their areas.

The Department is divided into 3 Units, namely; Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance.

• Monitoring of the State of the Environment;
• Preparation of daily monitoring reports;
• Monitoring of the State Approved PSP Operators;
• Issuance of Sanitation Alarms to Government Agencies, Public Communities and other Stakeholders;
• Market Monitoring;
• LAWMA Monitoring;
• Investigations on received Public Complaints relating to issues affecting the State of the environment;
• Issuance of Abatement Notices;
• Enforcement of Sanitation Laws of the State;
• Weekly enforcement report and pictorial representations;
• Holding mediation meetings between aggrieved parties from public and private sectors;
• Document and data generation.

Monitoring Unit

1. This Unit ensures daily monitoring of highways and roads for
   1. Illegal Refuse dumps
   2. Illegal Refuse littering
   3. Illegal shanties on road setback
   4. Illegal street trading
   5. Blocked drains
   6. Overgrown weeds
   7. Dead bodies
   8. Road accidents
   9. Burst water pipes
   10. All other nuisances

• Preparation of daily monitoring report and pictorial representation.
• Weekly collation of reports and pictorial representation
• Issuance of Sanitation Alarm on the Authority, Government Agencies, Public Communities and other Stakeholders.

1. Market Monitoring
   1. Monitoring of various markets within the State on weekly basis to enlighten market men and women on how to sanitize their environment and also monitoring of Market Environmental Sanitation exercise in line with the State regulations.

1. Documentation and Data Generation
   1. Covering of meetings and preparation of minutes.
   2. Raising memos for the MD`s approval on matters in the Department.

Enforcement

This Unit is charged with the following duties:

• Enforcement of Sanitation Laws on:
  • Individuals
  • Corporate Bodies
  • Organizations
  • All other categories of people who failed to obey the Environmental Sanitation Laws of the State.
• Weekly enforcement report and pictorial representation.

Compliance Unit

• Investigations on public complaints relating to issues affecting the state of the environment received from :
  • Managing Director
  • The public
  • Private Organizations
  • Other Stakeholders
• Holding of mediation meetings between aggrieved parties from the public and private sectors.
• Issuance of Abatement Notices.
• Daily collation of reports on investigations with pictorial representation.
• Documentation and data representation