THE Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr Ibrahim Odumboni has assured Lagos residents that the company will clear the backlog of waste in the state in seven days.
Odumboni, who disclosed this while coordinating operational activities around the city on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, affirmed that the agency would exploit the gradual cessation of rainfall and the progress on landfill rehabilitation to achieve this feat.
“Thankfully, the rains have subsided and coupled with the reasonable progress on rehabilitation at the landfills, all these are working for good to complement our efforts. I can tell you that in seven days, the backlog of refuse will be gone. We have re-energised our operational machinery, working in renewed collaboration with the PSP operators.
“We are working on an arrangement to sort out some of the issues affecting the performance of PSP operators in the state, especially the issue of scarcity and high cost of diesel, which has practically undermined our efforts to rid the state of the waste backlog,” he said.
He then urged residents to bag and containerise their waste and support efforts of the agency to sanitise the environment by shunning indiscriminate waste disposal, one of the major factors leading to flooding disasters and other attendant environmental hazards.
Similarly, the president of the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria (AWAMN), Mr David Oriyomi, promised that the PSP operators would continue to work closely with LAWMA, to discharge their statutory duties of evacuating waste while appealing to residents to ensure prompt payment of their waste bills.
