Lagos state, with an estimated 25million people and still counting generates 13million, kg of wastes daily, Citizens Forum has disclosed.
The forum is a monthly publication of Defence for Human Rights CDHR and Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL.
Edited by Debo Adeniran, president/chairman of CDHR/CACOL respectively, the book stated that in Lagos, there is no comprehensive city based system of collection and disposal of wastes.
According to him, the commercial nerve center of Nigeria is using the infrastructures developed in the 1970s when the population of the state was 3million people to operate wastes disposal today.
But, Mrs Adeyemo K.O, representative of the Lagos State Wastes Management Authority, LAWMA, who attended one of the citizens Accountability ad Rights Forum, CARF, explained that during the tenure of Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos, State, there are about 1300 companies running wastes house-to-house wastes collection and disposal business.
As you know, the companies under public-private sector project, PSP, as expected were and still running the business to make profits, she said.
Her words:” But, some Lagosians were and are still dumping their wastes in gutters, canals, road sides and uncompleted buildings, while refusing to pay the monthly wastes bills to these companies”.
She however disclosed some telephone numbers: 080000LAWMA,617 and 07080601020, and encouraged people in Lagos to stop dumping their wastes illegally, but call these hotlines of the agency for prompt collection and disposal of waste.
