By Tolulope Johnson
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has urged government at all levels to ensure strict implementation and enforcement of environmental laws to protect the ecosystem.
The NCF Director-General, Dr Joseph Onoja, made the call in an interview in Lagos.
Onoja said that the country’s environmental laws were being impeded by lack of implementation and enforcement to address environmental challenges.
He said that the country would continue to experience environmental challenges with weak enforcement.
“We call on the government to implement environmental laws so that the greedy actions of very few people will not affect others.
“We have beautiful laws even though they are not all encompassing that if the government can start implementing these laws, we will go a long way.
“We appeal to the government to enforce our environmental laws,” he said.
Onoja noted that defaulters of the environmental laws should be brought to book to create sanity in the country.
He, however, called on Nigerians to support the governments and its agencies by ensuring that the rules were not being violated.
He said that flooding would continue to be an issue in the country if people continue to block water channels.
