Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, earlier today, officially relaunched the monthly environmental cleaning exercises at Mushin-Agege Motor Road, alongside the Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Dosunmu, and other state officials.

The exercise will however fully resume on Saturday, 25 April 2026, and only on the last Saturday of every month from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

The governor appealed to the states residents to dedicate the allotted two hours to clean their surroundings, clear the drainages around their homes, and dispose their wastes appropriately. Unlike the situation in the past, human and vehicular movement will not be restricted.

It will be recalled that Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a Lagos based lawyer had sued the state and the Inspector-General of Police in 2015, challenging the legality of restricting residents’ free movement as against the provisions in the laws during the monthly cleaning exercise.

Despite the state's stout defense that the restriction was necessary to ensure a clean and safe environment, Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos, while delivering his judgement in 2016, nullified the monthly restriction of movement, holding that there was no existing law in the state that made it compulsory for residents to remain indoors during the exercise.