The Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ibrahim Odumboni, has charged residents of Ikeja Local Government and Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), to procure containers for storing their waste, to avoid imminent sanctions.
He hinted that serving of abatement notices by the agency would begin in October, while actual enforcement would commence in January next year.
Odumboni stated this during a stakeholders meeting held respectively at the secretariats of the councils, attended by council officials LCDA representatives and market leaders, among others.
He said, “By 1st October, if you do not have a bin, the enforcement team will serve you an abatement notice, and by 1st January 2023, it becomes a punishable offence if you do not have a bin”.
He encouraged the councils to set up their waste policing outfits, to checkmate illegal dumping of waste by traders, and other residents in their domains.
“I want the local government and market leaders to assist LAWMA in making sure that the markets in Onigbongbo are clean”, he stressed.
In his address the Chairman of Onigbongbo LCDA, Hon. Oladotun Olakanl commended the efforts of LAWMA and encouraged the residents to support the authority.
According to him, “Let us ensure that anything discussed here on the issue of waste management should be taken seriously, let us support LAWMA to keep our environment consistently clean and healthy”.
In his remarks, the Chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Hon. Engr, Mojeed Alabi Balogun, represented by the Vice Chairman, Hon. Yomi Mayungbe, appreciated Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and LAWMA, for the stakeholders’ meeting on solid waste management across the state.
He appealed to the residents to shun illegal dumping of waste in their communities, to avoid the spread of diseases, noting, “If waste is not properly managed, we risk our health to all kinds of diseases”.