Nobody is exempted from paying waste payments – LAWMA MD

The Managing Director/CEO of Lagos Waste Administration Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has known as on residents within the state to help efforts of the Authority to rid the setting of filth, by paying their waste payments promptly.

He stated cost for waste companies was very essential to reaching the state’s imaginative and prescient of creating a cleaner and livable setting, including that nobody was exempted from paying waste payments, no matter occupation or societal standing.

In accordance with him, “We need to attraction to all residents within the state, to make it an obligation to pay their waste payments. This is essential as a result of the operations of service suppliers, rely closely on folks paying for waste companies. As a matter of reality, no person is exempted from this, together with civil servants”.

“For the sake of emphasis, there isn’t a part of the Civil Service Rule that exempts authorities employees from paying for companies rendered by PSP operators. This is applicable to each different career. We should take duty for the change we need to see in the environment. Anybody caught dumping indiscriminately beneath the guise of belonging to a selected career, can be made to face the wrath of the legislation”, he stated.

The LAWMA boss reiterated the Authority’s dedication to making sure that each a part of the metropolis was correctly sanitised, in a press release signed by the  Director, Public Affairs Mrs.Folashade Kadiri,including that the company had stepped up efforts to rid the setting of waste backlogs, by means of intensive morning and night time operations.

He additional said, “We deploy hundreds of sweepers, and waste assortment vehicles day by day, throughout main routes within the metropolis, in addition to be certain that waste generated by tenements is taken care of, by PSP operators. We need to guarantee Lagosians that we’ll not relent on our efforts to make the setting cleaner and more healthy for all”.

Odumboni stated the Authority was additionally working with different sister companies, equivalent to Neighbourhood Watch and Motor Car Administration Company (MVAA), to examine waste migration, a state of affairs the place some residents transfer wastes generated at residence of their automobiles, and dump whereas transiting to a different level.

Talking additional, he known as on the populace to embrace the tradition of recycling and waste sorting from supply, which aside from saving the setting from plastic air pollution, had quite a few financial advantages.

He admonished residents to all the time bag and containerise their waste, whereas ready for the arrival of assigned PSP operators, including that the follow of waste containerisation would ultimately assist curb littering and indiscriminate refuse disposal across the metropolis.