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Lagos – The Lagos State Government will not relent in its effort at making the state the safest place to live in by providing a safe environment, the Commissioner for The Environment, Dr Babatunde Adejare has said. Adejare made the assertion at the official flag-off of the Lagos State Market Deratisation Programme, aimed at ridding the state of the Lassa Fever vector at Obalende market on Thursday.      The government is collaborating with Phosguard Fumigants, an NGO, to promote the programme through “Kill rats, make more money in Lagos’’. Under the programme, the residents are encouraged to kill rats in their environs which the programme implementers, Phosguard will buy at a yet-to-be determined price for proper disposal.                   Officials of Phosguard Fumigants Ltd. demonstrate evacuation of dead rats at the flag off of                         ...

The Buy Rats Make Money’’ initiative by the Lagos State Government is environmental friendly and safe for humans, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Phosgard Fumigants Nig. Ltd., Oluwasegun Benson, has said. Benson, whose company is partnering with the state government in the project made the assertion on the sidelines of the flag off of the exercise at Obalende Market on Thursday.                             The vector control programme had no side effect on the market women, adding that evacuation of the dead rats would be done by its officials. “The scheme is environmental friendly and safe. We have distributed flyers on how the market women will go about it and how it works. “What we do is to have the fumigation when the market is closed, that is from dusk to dawn. What the market women will only come to see are dead rats. “They will not realise anything untoward, the only evidence are the dead rats which we ha...