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Folake Salaw

Programme Coordinator for Green Recovery Nigeria at Nigerian Conservation Foundation; environmental policy and sustainable development expert.

May 30, 2026

ChamiHOST
24:33
Okay.
24:34
So you look at it like it could be, uh, the template that could have been adopted the wholeOf Lekki in building Right Where we still live in Lekki, and then we leave and allow the water to flow- Interesting ... just like you have in, uh- Lekki, Venice ... cities like Venice- Awesome, yeah ...
24:52
Dresden, uh, in Europe- Right ... where people, their houses are just on what they call canals- Yeah, yeah ... which are the natural waterways.
25:01
But here, uh, we are, we just do things.
25:06
We, on a plot of land, we clear everything.
25:09
Mm.
25:10
[laughs] Even one single tree, you don't even leave for, to provide a shade.
28:28
Are there any, you know, ways, in, sort of two ways that, you know, the city life is affecting us that people can't necessarily link to urbanization?

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