The General Manager of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), Mr Adebola Shabi, has condemned rearing of animals in residential areas saying it constitutes a huge environmental menace.
According to him, the 1979 Constitution allows people to have pets such as dogs and cats but not to keep a large number that are capable of constituting a nuisance.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that animals’ urine and excreta always constituted a public nuisance noting that the sanitation unit of the Ministry of Environment deals with the issue as part of sanitation offence.
“‘Rearing of animals in residential areas is now a big issue as it constitutes a lot of environmental problems. Animal wastes like urine, excreta and other body fluids is not good for humans.
By the time water touches the waste, it forms filter polypore.
The wastes can also degrade to an ammonia substance which is dangerous to human beings,” he said.
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