Kunle Adelabu
Princess (Hon.) Olajumoke Ademehin, the Chairman of the Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), has assured that the council officials would be deployed to fumigate public places as directed by the State government.
She made this assurance after taken delivery of the two disinfectant equipment supplied to the council by the state government.
About twenty disinfectant equipment were distributed across the six council areas in Ikorodu Division between Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29, 2020, by the state government to contain the spread of the coronavirus epidemic that is ravaging the country.
According to the Council Manager, Mr Rotinwa Oladapo Abiodun, the council would also be engaging the service of private fumigation agents to do effective fumigation of the council area.
“I have been able to call stakeholders’ meetings with CDC, CDAs, artisans, market men and women, trade union and others to sensitize them on regular washing of hands, general personal hygiene and keeping social distance. This we have been able to do first”, Princess Ademehin stated while stating the efforts of the council so far towards containing the deadly disease.
“After that, we have been using public address system to educate residents in market areas and other parts of the community concerning Coronavirus.
“We also told them about the Lagos State Government’s directives banning all form of religious and social gatherings and we asked them to adhere to them strictly”.
She stated that residents of the council are complying with the directives of the state government to stay at home, maintain socal distance and not to congregate among other precautionary measures.
“We can see that they are complying with the directives and we have the state monitoring team on ground to enforce those directives”, she stated.
“We are going to be disinfecting markets, bus stops, parks and other public places where people normally gather to contain the spread of the virus in our community”, she told THE IMPACT.
Also speaking with our reporter, Mr Rotinwa Oladipo Abiodun, the Council Manager, Ikorodu West LCDA, stated that the council has complied with the government’s directives by disengaging the staff and only brought in some to implement state government’s directives.
“So far, we have complied with the instruction to disengaged staff from level 1 to 12, but for the purpose of efficiency in tackling the challenges on ground, we have been able to bring in some of the staff members to assist various heads of departments towards the implementation of the state government’ s directives”, Mr Abidun stated.
“We have been supportive of the government, especially by using the services of professional ones among us – health officials, in dealing with the coronavirus. We have been implementing every directive given by the executive arm of the state government”.
While commending the state government for distributing disinfectant equipment to council areas, the council manager added that they would be contracting fumigation agents within the council to effective disinfectant every public place within the council.
“Lagos State has been magnanimous in procuring these machines and deploring them to council areas for effective tackling of the disease. Instructions were given along with the disinfectant equipment sent to us.
“We are to disinfect all public places, especially markets and other places. In our council, we are trying to bring in fumigation experts/agents to assist us in effective fumigation of all public places. We are going to be using these agents’ equipment too to support whatever the government has provided to have effective coverage of the council in the fumigation exercise ”.
