By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni has tasked residents to raise a formidable waste policing team.
Odumboni gave the charge at Apapa Local Government Secretariat, Apapa, at an inaugural stakeholders’ meeting and public sensitization with residents and other stakeholders, scheduled to take place in all the 57 Local Governments and LCDAs of the state.
Odumboni charged residents of Apapa and its environs on pro-active steps towards ridding the environment of illegal dumpsites, and total eradication of reckless waste disposal.
He said the Authority to engage with residents and all stakeholders, to rid the council of filth and enthrone a new regime of cleanliness and sustainable environment.
“The chairman of Apapa Local Government has been at the front burner of ensuring that this council gets rid of indiscriminate waste disposal.
“We will start by ensuring that a transfer loading station is sited at Apapa, once the Council Chairman can provide us with a land for that purpose.
“Easy evacuation of waste by PSP operators will increase the turn around time and improve the aesthetics of the Local Government and environs,” he said.
The LAWMA Boss also enjoined the people to shun indiscriminate dumping into canals and drainage channels, encouraging residents to key into recycling, by separating their waste at source, to make additional income.
Also, the Chairman of Apapa Local Government, Hon. Mrs. Idowu Sebanjo, lauded the effort of LAWMA for frontally confronting the menace of sundry environmental infractions in the council, promising that all needed support would be given by her council, to return the disappeared aesthetics and allure of that metropolitan community.