Lagos seals Jumia over illegal sewage discharge, vows prosecution
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday sealed a Jumia outlet located in Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, over an alleged Illegal discharge of their raw sewage directly into the environment.
Disclosing this in a statement on his official X handle on Wednesday, the Commissioner for Health and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, said the state Wastewater Management Office under his ministry conducted the exercise.
The statement read, “The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Wastewater Management Office (LSWMO) @lswmomedia saddled with the responsibility of managing all wastewater activities in the state under the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources @LasgMOE today (Wednesday) sealed the Jumia outlet in Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba for illegal discharge of Sewage into the environment.
“The Jumia facility engaged the use of a submersible pumping machine to pump raw sewage from its sewage holding tanks directly into the environment on adjoining drainage outlets and road setbacks,” he explained.
The commissioner vowed that the owners of the property “will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the Lagos State Environmental Management Protection Law, 2017.”
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