deomelo:

Actually, it was the other way around, Ambode sabotaged Lagos state, Lagosians and LAWMAN because LAWMA was the best and the most efficient, well organized and advanced waste management agency in Nigeria and West Africa in general.

LAWMA kept refuse/garbage in check, they engaged and regulated PSPs and even created tens of thousands of jobs from the state agency level to the PSP level, they built multi-billion Naira waste management infrastructures from massive equipment to first class loading stations, quality management and training, recycling programs and so on.

Bottom line, Lagos state through LAWMA kept refuse/waste in check, LAWMA folks in the orange uniform were all over the place all day cleaning and sweeping.

LAWMA was a well-oiled organization, a massive crown jewel and pride of Lagos state government and Lagosians, but Ambode with his ego, destructive behaviour and petty appetite to destroy his predecessor's legacies and see me too syndrome destroyed LAWMA and the states massive and multi-billion Naira waste management agency and tens of thousands of jobs in favour of a foreign, unknown and incompetent company with zero money to operate with.

The imported company did not invest 1 kobo, they did not pay for 1 single wheelbarrow, Ambode gave them billions in bonds to operate with, our money and the money he should have invested in LAWMA and Lagosians. At the end of the day, the imported company couldn't do the job because they didn't know the terrain, they didn't have waste management skills and expertise and the result was Lagos buried under trash.

That fiasco exposed Ambode's incompetence, shortsightedness, unpatriotic attitude and disregard for established authority, jobs and Lagosians in general.

I'd understand if LAWMA was not working or if Lagos was buried under trash, but that was not the case under LAWMA. LAWMA was a superb agency and even the PSPs you tried to ridicule were tens of thousands of Lagosians with legal and well-deserved jobs and waste management value chain enterprise that Anode should have preserved because it was a perfect balance and ecosystem between LAWMA as waste management and regulating agency and the private job-creating sector.

Ambode sabotaged Lagosians, not the other way around.

Sanwo Olu and his team did their homework, they've identified critical issues and areas to address and of course, they've mapped out strategies hence the daily positive moves they've been making since inauguration

deomelo:
Typical meaningless and reetarded ipob nonsense.

In fact, I'd love to see the governor himself collecting trash, it's called leading by example, but of course, this concept is way way above your village square level hence the leaders in Lagos making positive moves every day since inauguration while the lazy and incompetent ones in your village are still crying and lamenting over toilet and handover note instead of working

CONSTITUTION OF THE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
1999

Fourth Schedule
Functions of a Local Government Council

1. The main functions of a local government council are as follows:

(a) the consideration and the making of recommendations to a State commission on economic planning or any similar body on -
(i) the economic development of the State, particularly in so far as the areas of authority of the council and of the State are affected, and
(ii) proposals made by the said commission or body;
(b) collection of rates, radio and television licences;
(c) establishment and maintenance of cemeteries, burial grounds and homes for the destitute or infirm;
(d) licensing of bicycles, trucks (other than mechanically propelled trucks), canoes, wheel barrows and carts;
(e) establishment, maintenance and regulation of slaughter houses, slaughter slabs, markets, motor parks and public conveniences;
(f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State;
(g) naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses;
(h) provision and maintenance of public conveniences, sewage and refuse disposal;
(i) registration of all births, deaths and marriages;

(j) assessment of privately owned houses or tenements for the purpose of levying such rates as may be prescribed by the House of Assembly of a State; and

(k) control and regulation of -

(i) out-door advertising and hoarding,
(ii) movement and keeping of pets of all description,
(iii) shops and kiosks,
(iv) restaurants, bakeries and other places for sale of food to the public,
(v) laundries, and
(vi) licensing, regulation and control of the sale of liquor.

2. The functions of a local government council shall include participation of such council in the Government of a State as respects the following matters -

the provision and maintenance of primary, adult and vocational education;
(b) the development of agriculture and natural resources, other than the exploitation of materials
(c) the provision and maintenance of health services; and
(d) such other functions as may be conferred on a local government council by the House of Assembly of the State.


Source: http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/documents/ConstitutionalMatters/1999Constitution/FourthSchedule.html

KanuSE:


Can you please shed light on how Ambode failed in this regard?

hakm5:


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otokx:


When PH was Port Harcourt Refuse was cleared from 11pm till 4am.

deomelo:

The imported company did not invest 1 kobo, they did not pay for 1 single wheelbarrow, Ambode gave them billions in bonds to operate with, our money and the money he should have invested in LAWMA and Lagosians. At the end of the day, the imported company couldn't do the job because they didn't know the terrain, they didn't have waste management skills and expertise and the result was Lagos buried under trash.

KanuSE:


Can you please shed light on how Ambode failed in this regard?

askakim:
Lagos is so dirty this days even the island Ajah,Lekki etc not to talk of mainland oshodi, Apapa, ketu, if something isn't done about environmental sanitation on Saturday back, we might end up with breathing space for diseases..

COMPAQ:
My issue is that why do government agencies and parastatals only respond to a new government? Why can they do their work with passion, dilligence and creativity regardless of who the governor is.

If lagos has been this dirty and the head of lawma is just putting his brain to work because there is anew governor in town then that person doesn't deserve to head lawma.

It’s akin to getting a new coach in football...
Initially everyone raises their game, but without actual systemic/institutional reforms it peters out after a while.

seguno2:


.......governor doing LGA work, is that one a governor

Babanlagenius:
And in ehn. Dirty wan kill person before. No be small thing.

Sanwo-Olu my man.

Raalsalghul:

Improper waste management was a low point of Ambode's tenure.

Scatterscatter:

You know He is supposed to do federal govt work

seguno2:


Learn to keep your ignorance to yourself instead of trying to pollute others with your stench. Understand

9jaRealist:


I really should have stopped reading at your statement that Visionscape doesn’t have “waste management skills and expertise”...
Bros, basic research would have spared you from that singular embarrassment re ignorance of a well-established multinational operator.

Nonetheless, interesting that the same House of Assembly that voted unanimously for the new state environmental laws pursuant to which the role of LAWMA was changed from a regulator/operator (the same duality that has destroyed entities like the NNPC) to solely that of a regulator (which new law by its provisions took almost a year to take effect while the state government went through a bid process for, and thereafter vetted, potential operators), following marching orders from Bourdillon reinstated the PSPs as domestic waste collectors without bothering to repeal their own law.

Meanwhile, your pedantic posts suffers from the same confusion that many ill-informed commentators make on this topic. The PSPs were NEVER abolished or precluded from the waste management process! Instead they were reclassified as WCPs after a recertification process by LAWMA (under its proper role as regulator) that involve an audit of their equipment, processes and capacity (including manpower), and apart from being granted the exclusive rights to manage commercial waste were additionally allowed to manage household waste in areas not served by Visionscape.

Frankly, it would be funny if it was not tragic to see folks regard a process that involves simply dumping waste in a rudimentary (actually ancient) dumpsite located in the middle of a populated neighborhood (and which already previously combusted) as some sort of modern waste management “infrastructure”. In fact, even the LAWMA loading station (NOT stations) at Simpson Street was not even automated, until Visionscape came in and upgraded/modernized the facility (in addition to developing 2 other loading stations and a new world-class modern landfill - not just a dumpsite - at Epe).

Stripped of all turenchi, here’s a succinct analogy that most people would grasp - a one room abode may work well for a single dude but when he gets married and has several kids that same single room will not be quite so workable. Ultimately, the political apparatchiks and carpetbaggers who SABOTAGED the Cleaner Lagos Initiative will come to the realization that the present rudimentary system of waste collection (calling it management is a misnomer) is ill-suited to the needs of an ever-expanding megapolis. Hopefully, that would happen before Olusosun (which is reportedly contaminating ground water) really blows up with tragic and fatal consequences.

PS: BTW, most (if not all) of the LAWMA staff were absorbed by Visionscape, probably with better conditions of employment.

On the board of Visionscape is a Nigerian Niyi Makanjuola a founding director of Caverton Offshore Support Group, information from the company website shows.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/inside-lagosvisionscape-deal-costs-taxpayers-n85bn/

The Visionscape group projected in the information memorandum that about N16.3 billion of the bond proceeds will be used to acquire fleet for the transfer loading stations, strategic acquisitions and related infrastructure, expected by September 30, 2017.
Containers and operational equipment is to cost N3.13 billion, and waste facilities upgrade N2.58 billion, while working capital would gulp N2.5 billion.

Also embedded in the Information Memorandum documents is a disclosure that the Visionscape SPV is expected to incur management fees of N406.2 million for 2017, which moves up 101 percent to N820 million in 2018, while projecting an operating loss of N508.4 million for 2017.

According to Oladipo Egbeyemi, the chairman of Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, 80 percent of their work was conceded to a foreign company (Visionscape) risking their N6bn investment and the livelihood of over 35,000 employees.


http://www.businessdayonline.com/inside-lagosvisionscape-deal-costs-taxpayers-n85bn/

seguno2:


If you don’t know what a governor’s job description is, get a copy of the 1999 constitution, as amended, to cure your ignorance. Will you thank me later

Scatterscatter:


So you mean the state government should ignore waste management in a situation where by the local government isn't properly mobilized. You will make a very terrible administrator and leader

“Lagos has gotten progressively less transparent today, they don’t even bother,” said Tunde Leye, Consulting Partner at SBM Intelligence.
“Under the previous Governor Fashola for example, even though the budget was not detailed, you could find procurement information on the LASG website (that’s how we knew how much he spent on the website or boreholes for example).

We know exactly the cost of building the Lekki Ikoyi Bridge. Compare to Ambode where we do not know how much he spent to build the Ajah flyover or anything else. Civil society has tried to invoke the freedom of information (FOI) act repeatedly but they have either been ignored or blown off. Lagos is very opaque.”

http://www.businessdayonline.com/inside-lagosvisionscape-deal-costs-taxpayers-n85bn/

hakm5:


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