NESREA Optimistic Over Collaboration With Lagos Govt

The National Environmental
Standards and Regulations and Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has expressed optimism that the collaboration with the Lagos State Government will yield positive results.
The Deputy Director and Lagos State Coordinator of NESREA, Mrs Eunice Eze, told newsmen  in Lagos on Thursday, that the partnership would assist the state in the enforcement of  environmental regulations and laws.
Eze said that collaboration with federal agencies would ensure that all industries complied with environmental regulations.
“It is a way forward because the states have the right to take national laws and adapt them to their own local situation or peculiarity. “All we ask is that there should be harmony on issues or areas that will bring conflict so that it will not affect the people in the industries, especially environmental auditing, he said.
“If we work together with the national body which oversees the whole federation, there will be progress and our environment will be safeguarded,’’ she said.
If  the 28 regulations of NESREA, the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency will be applying only eight in different sectors.
The regulations are in textile, wearing apparels, leather and foot wear, domestic and industrial plastic and rubber as well as sanitation and waste control.
Other regulations to be applied are on food, beverage and tobacco, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, basic metal, iron and steel  and non-metallic.