Former Lagos Labour Party governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has hit out at the planned reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in the state.

He has described the approach as “parochial” and lacking innovation.

Rhodes-Vivour, in a post on X on Friday, reacted to an earlier announcement by the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, who had urged residents to participate in the exercise.

Wahab had announced that the sanitation exercise would hold between 6:30am and 8:30am, calling on residents to take responsibility for keeping their environment clean.

“Tomorrow morning between 6:30am and 8:30am, we begin a new chapter in our collective journey toward a cleaner Lagos. The monthly environmental sanitation exercise returns, and I am calling on every resident to come out and participate actively,” Wahab said.

He also addressed legal concerns surrounding the exercise, stating, “No court pronouncement has invalidated this exercise. The State proceeded to the Court of Appeal, and judgment was delivered in our favour. The Court affirmed that the laws used for the implementation and enforcement of environmental sanitation are legitimate and constitutional.”