Also, it has awarded the contract for the expansion of the Lekki road to Hi-tech Construction Company, stating that the measure was to ease the traffic situation that has gradually become unbearable for the workers and residents of the area, saying, "the only way to ease the traffic along Lekki is for us to extend the road network along that corridor."

According to the commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, the need to recruit sanitary officers to monitor meat transportation was borne out of the agitation of the state government to ensure that the mode by which meat is being transported is re-defined, with the target of making it safe for consumption.

Bamidele disclosed this yesterday at the second post-executive council meeting, press briefing at the Bagauda Kalto press centre, state secretariat Alausa, Ikeja, saying, "the executive council meeting has directed the ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to recruit well qualified environmental experts; they would ensure that the rules guiding the transportation of meat are effected," adding that henceforth, any meat transported in an unhygienic manner would be seized.

According to him, the state EXCO also agreed to reorganize and restructure the state Transport Maintenance Authority [LASTMA], admitting that even though some officials were able to prove themselves worthy of the task for which they were employed, yet, most of them have enmeshed themselves in corruption and indiscipline.

Disclosing that state government would employ more hands for LASTMA, Opeyemi further stated that the state EXCO also agreed to put in motion measures that would create green Lagos, through the planting of tree on major roads, he said.

The commissioner however explained that the effort to create green Lagos state would be the joint efforts of all the ministries and agencies, "we have resolved that it must be an inter agency and inter ministerial assignment."

He also noted that the state had set up a special committee to monitor the indiscriminate disposition of medical waste because of the inherent danger it posses