By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Managing Director, Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni has charged residents to fully embrace waste containerisation, to aid seamless evacuation of waste, to prevent flooding, as the rainy season approaches.
Odunmboni, also urged residents to procure the standard waste bins, for easy segregation and perfect containerisation of waste, in line with the recently launched “Adopt-a-bin” initiative.
He made the appeal on Tuesday, during an advocacy program in Agege Local Government and Orile-Agege Local Council Development Area, in continuation of stakeholders’ meeting, aimed at educating people across the 57 Local Government Areas in the state, on waste management best practices.
Odunmboni said: “We are here today because your well being is our priority. Health they say is wealth. This is our watchword in LAWMA. We have come to encourage you to do the right thing at the right time, by procuring bins provided by LAWMA, you can pay by installment, rather than allowing refuse to litter carelessly on the streets. Those wastes alongside the ones dumped inside drainage would cause flooding when it rains. It can only get better, if we all cooperate to do what is right”.
“These two councils have developed tremendously overtime, I must commend the leadership of the councils for a job well done, especially in the area of environmental cleanliness.
“We want you to do more. Empower your youths, LAWMA will train them on waste policing, let them assist health officers and help carry out enforcement against recalcitrant tenements. Some of these unemployed youths can also key into the business opportunities in recycling by sorting recyclable wastes like pet bottles, cans, cartons, sachet nylons, among others, which can be sold to companies; they can make money from it.”
The LAWMA boss, therefore, urged the leadership of market associations in the councils, community development associations, artisans and residents, to patronise assigned Public Sector Participants, PSPs, and desist from the patronage of cart-pushers.
