The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is set to conduct major enforcement operations at FESTAC axis of Lagos over the next few weeks, in a bid to stem the activities of cart-pushers, which has left the environment in a deplorable condition.
According to a release signed by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, the activities of the outlawed cart-pushers had increased the level of indiscriminate disposal of waste at unauthorised locations such as in drainage channels, road medians and uncompleted buildings.
He stated that the enforcement exercise would be carried out to restore sanity to the environment and forestall the negative consequences of indiscriminate dumping of refuse, especially during the current rainy season.
Odumboni, therefore, urged residents to shun patronage of cart-pushers, whose activities jeopardise the health and safety of residents, stressing the need to patronise assigned PSP operators and to pay for waste services promptly.
While maintaining that the State government, through LAWMA, has empowered PSP operators, to render quality waste management services across the metropolis.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Wastewater Management Office, in an effort to ensure compliance with the management and disposal of wastewater, has expanded her operations from the existing 11 to 13 Zones, and two new Specialised Units.
The General Manager, Wastewater Management Office, Engr. Adebola Matanmi, who disclosed this in a release issued on Tuesday, added that the newly created zones and units would expand the area of coverage of the Agency’s operations and improve service delivery.
He, therefore, charged Heads of the new Zones and Units to see their appointments as a call to duty and an opportunity to contribute their quota to the actualisation of the Office’s mandate in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the present administration, especially as it affects the second pillar – ‘Health & Environment’.
He equally urged all the staff of the Wastewater Management Office to offer necessary support to the Heads of the newly created Zones and Units with a view to ensuring that the Agency’s overall objectives are achieved.
