Waste disposal: LAWMA Goes Tough on Defaulters over Cart Pushers, Others

The Managing Director, Lagos State Waste Management Authority, Mr Ibrahim Odumboni, has said Lagos State generates 13,000 tonnes of waste daily.

Odumboni, also lamented that several people disposed their waste irresponsibly by not patronising the appropriate operators but cart pushers that had been outlawed, and vowed to go tough on defaulters.

He revealed that the PSP currently had 1,100 trucks while LAWMA as a regulator had 150 as a result of the high volume of waste as well as the need to keep the state free of filth.

Odumboni expressed concern that some residents had remained adamant in procuring bins and neglected LAWMA’s campaign for every household to adopt a bin.

He explained that if residents heed to this advice, it would be much easier to collect wastes from homes and business places.

He declared that there was a plan to review the waste collection price by 50 per cent in consonance with today’s realities, especially the high cost of diesel and other associated costs that have made operating cost to rise to over 300 per cent.

Odumboni promised that the law would take its course and that every household or businesses that failed to comply would be prosecuted.