Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources

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Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Lagos State
HeadquartersState Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos State, Nigeria
Ministry executive
  • Mr Tunji Bello, Commissioner
Website http://www.moelagos.gov.ng/

The Lagos Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources was created out of the old Ministry of Works and Transport in 1979 by Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the first elected Governor of Lagos State. The Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning was eventually amalgamated with the Ministry of Physical Planning to form the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning. In 2003, the administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the past Governor of Lagos State, removed the Environment Office from Physical Planning and raised the current Environment Office to a full-fledged Ministry. [1]

The Ministry's primary goal was to create a clean, healthier, and more sustainable environment that would be conducive to tourism, economic growth, and citizen well-being. In the year 2005, two offices were created under the Ministry:

The two offices, Office of Environmental Services and Office of Drainage Services, were consolidated into a single Ministry of the Environment in 2015, following an Executive Order by His Excellency, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. In January 2018, the Office of Drainage Services was transferred to the Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC), which is under the Ministry of Works, as part of the Akinwunmi Ambode Administration's Environment Sector reform.

Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, took the oath of office on May 29, 2019 and promised in his inauguration speech to restore the environmental agencies that had been nearly dormant. [2]

Parastatals

The ministry is in charge of Supervising the following Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs:

LIST OF PAST COMMISSIONERS [4]
S/NNAMESPERIOD
1MR. ALABI MASHA1979
2MR. N. A. KEKERE EKUN1987
3MR. TEMILOLA KEHINDE1990 – 1992
4ENGR. ASHIM ADEBOWALE OYEKAN1994 – 1995
5ENGR. GBENGA ASHAFA1995
6MRS. FUNMILAYO DA-SILVA1997
7ARC. KAYODE ANIBABA1999 – 2003
8MR. TUNJI BELLO2003 – 2007
9DR. MUIZ ADEYEMI BANIRE2007 – 2011
10MR. TUNJI BELLO2011- 2015
11DR. SAMUEL BABATUNDE ADEJARE2015 – 2018
12MR. BABATUNDE DUROSINMI-ETTI2018 – 2019

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