The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and its Ogun state counterpart on Tuesday held a sensitisation workshop against open defecation along the Lagos/Ogun State corridor.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the sensitisation programme started at OPIC inward Lagos to the end of Otedola bridge.

Speaking at the event, Dr Tunde Ajayi, the General Manager, LASEPA, described open defecation as a problem that had bedeviled communities globally.

Ajayi said the health implication of open defecation included cholera, adding that the act demeaned the dignity of the human person.

“We think that this kind of thing should not be found around Lagos. “We are instituting an enforcement protocol such that nobody would defecate from OPIC till the end of Otedola Bridge.

“Nobody should come to the middle of the road to defecate. “In our enforcement protocol, we are engaging those who run public toilets around here to stretch them so that they can run night shift, Ajayi said.

He added that anyone caught defecating on the road median would be made to engage in community service.