Bins in homes, solution to Lagos Island waste issues – Odumboni
By Flourish Alonge
Managing Director/CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has challenged households on Lagos Island to acquire waste bins for proper keeping and easy evacuation of their waste.
He threw the challenge during a stakeholders’ meeting organized by LAWMA at Lagos Island West Local Government, Iso, Onigari, where he insisted that the real reason behind waste mess around the Island was the lack of waste bins in respective homes.
Odumboni said if residents had waste bins in every home, properly containerizing their waste, it would prevent litters which is common sight on the Island, and enable easy evacuation.
He said, “The problem with waste management on the Island here is non availability of waste bins in households. If you have waste bins, you can properly containerize your waste and there will be no litters everywhere. It will make evacuation easy and everywhere will be clean. Lagos Island cannot be left this way; we have to make a change.”
He said it was not mandatory to purchase LAWMA bins, urging residents to ensure they have any bin to properly package their waste.
Managing Director/CEO, LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni (m); rep. of the council chairman, Mohammed Eshilokun (3rd left); LAWMA’s Executive Director Finance, Mr. Kunle Adebiyi (2nd left); AGM. Performance Management, Mrs Tawa Oyekanmi (3rd right); and Chief Technical Officer, Dr Olohunwa Tijani (2nd right), during the local govt stakeholders’ meeting on solid waste management in the state, at the council secretariat, on Tuesday, 5th April, 2022.
Responding, the council chairman, Tijani Adetoyese Olusi, represented by his vice, Mohammed Eshinlokun, hinted of the recruitment of youths as drainage guards to clear the drainage channels around the Island, adding that it was a way of empowering the youths and keeping the environment clean.
LAWMA’s Executive Director Finance, Mr. Kunle Adebiyi, and the Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Olorunwa Tijani, both enjoined residents to enhance environment-friendly habit and stop patronising cart pushers
Community Development Committee Chairman for Lagos Island West, Chief Abu Elemoro, commended LAWMA for the stakeholders’ meeting, calling for a continuation of such consultation, to arrest the people’s attention.
Also present were Iyaloja General, Lagos Island West, Alhaja Rasikat Abeje Lasisi, Supervisor for the Environment; Alhaji Audu Atanda, AGM Performance Management, Mrs. Tawa Oyekanmi, AGM West District, Mr. Akinwale Adeshina, among others.
