The Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has reiterated its determination to make the State cleaner and healthier for all. Lagos, it pledged, will become the biggest recycling State in West Africa.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Ibrahim Adejuwon Odumboni, in a media parley at its Headquarters, Ijora Olopa, Lagos, Wednesday, August 10, 2022, said that the Commission is not resting on its oars in addressing the issue of waste retrieval and the indiscriminate dumping of refuse at the median of major roads in the State.
He said in spite of the efforts of the Commission in addressing the issue of waste management to make the state the cleanest, some Lagosians still see it as a way of life by dumping refuse indiscriminately.
Odumboni stressed that LAWMA has formed a synergy with the Nigeria Police Force and the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps Watch, to arrest Cart Pushers who dump waste on the streets and roads in the State.
He said these Cart Pushers, after retrieving waste from some Lagosians who do not patronize the Private Sector Participation, PSPs, who are Clients of LAWMA, dump it on the median road at land.
“In addressing this anomalies we have a good relationship with the Police and LNSC to arrest the truck pushers and are charge to Court.
“We want all Lagosians to have a sense of belonging and not disenfranchise anyone that is why the Lagos State Government has subsidized the price of Diesel so that we won’t over charge Lagosians.
“For areas that are not motorable and are in the hinterlands, we are partnering with some Companies to get us Tricycles that we can use to get to the unmotorable areas and hinterlands to evacuate their refuse”.
He urged Lagosians to stop patronizing Cart Pushers and sign up with the PSPs for their refuse disposals.
The LAWMA MD said that Waste Management is recurrent and is a collective responsibility to all irrespective of tribe, religion, political affiliation. He said there is need for attitudinal change in waste management, as every Lagosians have a role to play.
Speaking further, Odumboni lamented that the hike in the price of Diesel is really having a toll on the Commission stressing that the rising cost of operations has prompted the Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo Olu administration to subsidize Diesel for LAWMA and all its PSP Operators.
He added that as regards rehabilitation of Landfills, the Olusosun, Badagry, Ikorodu and Epe Landfills are working perfectly well now and have capacity to tip 120 in an hour.
He, also, stated that as from October 1st, 2022, any House that do not have Waste Bin would be penalized as the Commission is partnering with Health Officers to do effective monitoring all around the State.
LAWMA said that by January 1st, 2023, if every household do not have the Waste Bin after been warned, the abatement letter will automatically turn to a prosecution letter.
He appealed to all Lagosians to comply because it is mandatory and compulsory for all Lagosians to have the Waste Bin.
Odumboni also said that the price of Waste tenement will be reviewed and implemented as from September 1st, 2022.
He said that LAWMA is working on making Olusosun Dumpsite become a Waste to Energy for the economic development for the State, just like the LAWMA Medical Waste Management in Ibeju Lekki and Odogunyan.
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