More than 22,000 children died in 2021 in the great Nigerian state of Lagos due to air pollution

Aug. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) announced this Sunday that 22,500 children died from air pollution in the Nigerian state, the great economic center of the African country, due to air pollution.

LASEPA Director General Dolapo Fasawe has estimated that this figure represents approximately 75 percent of the total of approximately 30,000 deaths in the state during the past year due to air pollution.

Fasawe has specified that the figures have been extracted from a recent report on the impact of pollution on the health of the approximately nine million residents of the state, he has made known in statements collected by the Nigerian media Premium Times.

LASEPA specialists will return to the Lagos communities in four weeks to measure air quality and verify compliance with the new anti-pollution practices.

“If they had listened to us and were practicing what we have taught them, the air would be cleaner,” lamented the director of LASEPA.