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Lawma Intensifies Enforcement, Expands Recycling Initiatives for Effective Waste Management

… Says “Zero-Tolerance for Environmental Infractions”

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has reinforced its commitment to tackling indiscriminate waste disposal across the state, adopting a two-pronged approach of strict enforcement and innovative waste management solutions. The agency has vowed to ensure full compliance with environmental laws, with ongoing legal action against offenders and sustained waste collection measures.



Speaking today on Lagos Talks 91.3 FM with the Guru, the Managing Director/CEO of LAWMA, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, noted that surveillance and enforcement teams were operating round the clock, to track and apprehend individuals who flout waste management laws, stressing that offenders would face the full weight of the law, to serve as a deterrent to individuals undermining the Authority's efforts.

He said: “Right now, we have about 50 cases in court where we have apprehended violators for illegal waste dumping. Our enforcement team, in collaboration with the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), has intensified its monitoring efforts, ensuring that offenders are prosecuted.”



Gbadegesin stated that over 300 illegal waste carts had been seized and were set for destruction, noting that investigations had revealed that many of the offenders were either new to Lagos or willfully disregarding the law, adding that such would not be tolerated.



“We are taking a firm stance against this trend. Our surveillance teams work both day and night to catch perpetrators in the act. Laws exist to be followed and enforced, and that’s the primary task of government so we can all live in peace”, he stated.

He highlighted LAWMA’s ongoing innovations in waste management, including the expansion of the Waste-to-Wealth and Circular Economy initiatives, aimed at reducing landfill dependence.



“We started to ask ourselves, are these things we are throwing away actually waste, or can we derive value from them? Now, we have a glass recycling plant in Lagos, and people are beginning to see the economic potential in materials like PET bottles”, he said.



The LAWMA boss revealed that the agency had introduced tricycle compactors in hard-to-reach areas such as Ibeju Lekki, with plans to extend the initiative to other parts of Lagos in the coming weeks, adding that the idea was to make waste collection more accessible, especially in areas where conventional compactors struggled due to bad roads, disclosing that the scheme once introduced in other parts would be, "Pay as you go".

Speaking further, he said the Authority’s marine waste team has continued daily waste collection efforts along the coastline, lagoons, and drainage channels, particularly at Five Cowries Creek, even as the agency continues to expand its advanced medical waste management system to include not just hospitals but also hairdressers and beauticians who generate human tissue waste.



Reaffirming LAWMA’s zero-tolerance policy on environmental infractions, he stressed that every Lagos resident had a role to play in maintaining a cleaner and healthier environment, from disposing of waste properly through accredited PSP operators, cleaning of gutters in front of houses, to sorting waste at source, urging the populace to comply with waste disposal regulations and report challenges with collection services to LAWMA, instead of resorting to illegal dumping.

https://lagosstate.gov.ng/news/all/view/67e1c44351182815ea6c9947

Aftermath of the corper lamentation still causing statements here and there but too bad all this is media package..nothing will change except new or increased bills to targeted people.

Who says it's not good to criticize the government?
After the Lagos is smelling comment, LAWMA is doing more work than before

Ok

Let's see

Nonsense, since I have been living in Iba for over 🤝10 years, these people have never taken my waste but brought a bill of 200k for me to pay.
They only take waste from select people and then zoom off and expect me to pay

i wonder why a learn person wil park his car on his way to work or wherevever d ef they are headed to drop refuse at the junction , i see this happen a lot at my street junction and i wonder if d lawma bill is not afordable for a compound to pay or they are retards

In a case when psp operators can't reach your area or not coming steadily, how do one dispose his/her waste?

Lanrelagboi:
Lawma Intensifies Enforcement, Expands Recycling Initiatives for Effective Waste Management

… Says “Zero-Tolerance for Environmental Infractions”


https://lagosstate.gov.ng/news/all/view/67e1c44351182815ea6c9947

great, more emphasis should be placed on enforcement of the law. Lagos is a small space carrying the burden of failed states we have in the federation.

A lot of this migrant have no business in Lagos if their home state was functioning. A lot have been done in Lagos to keep it clean and fashola really did a lot in that aspect.

People just need to inculcate the habit of good hygiene and stop blaming the government for what we as a citizen owe a responsibility to always keep our environment clean….eko oni baje o btw proudly Lagos

The waste you are talking about, is it the one in your private home or you are talking about your business place(office)?

Ibecon:
Nonsense, since I have been living in Iba for over 🤝10 years, these people have never taken my waste but brought a bill of 200k for me to pay.
They only take waste from select people and then zoom off and expect me to pay

Thank God for the NYSC girl.

Thank you Raye for speaking up.

How much is the bill that psp operators do collect? How is the money collected, is it monthly?

obojememe:
i wonder why a learn person wil park his car on his way to work or wherevever d ef they are headed to drop refuse at the junction , i see this happen a lot at my street junction and i wonder if d lawma bill is not afordable for a compound to pay or they are retards

Increase the pay of your workers too

People are making millions from PET recycling and USD 🤑 from export🤷

I will take them seriously when they move in the midnight to arrest people that drop their refuses on the highway.

"Proper Management" is always the problem of Nigerians.

We Hope That They Can Manage Things Properly!

Ode,tribal illeterat. you cannot refer to anyone as an immigrant in is own country,the three tiers of gov is to protect and provide for for the citizens regardless where or who they are.

ProudlyLagos:
great, more emphasis should be placed on enforcement of the law. Lagos is a small space carrying the burden of failed states we have in the federation.

A lot of this migrant have no business in Lagos if their home state was functioning. A lot have been done in Lagos to keep it clean and fashola really did a lot in that aspect.

People just need to inculcate the habit of good hygiene and stop blaming the government for what we as a citizen owe a responsibility to always keep our environment clean….eko oni baje o btw proudly Lagos

Enforcement without proper provisions and waste disposal operation?
LAWMA needs to do better in terms of providing more operational trucks and manpower. You can't bill residents for a service they did not receive.

LAWMA hardly comes at designated days in my area and end to bringing bills for service not rendered. You are going to end up in a lot of court cases this period.

Aftermath of Youth Corper's outburst.

The truth is that Lagos stinks. All the drainages are blocked, no flow and septic waste flows into making the water black. Lawma need to work harder. No fresh air in Lagos.

Ibecon:
Nonsense, since I have been living in Iba for over 🤝10 years, these people have never taken my waste but brought a bill of 200k for me to pay.
They only take waste from select people and then zoom off and expect me to pay

Bloody liar

Take the criticism and work on it to become better. I see Sanwo Olu tasking these LAWMA since that lady outburst about lagos smelling.

victor08:
Aftermath of Youth Corper's outburst.

The truth is that Lagos stinks. All the drainages are blocked, no flow and septic waste flows into making the water black. Lawma need to work harder. No fresh air in Lagos.

No be una dey cause am? You go dey run your mouth anyhow but you wouldn't pay shishi into the state government coffers

Bsbsbs

Thanks to the Corp member

Scammers

May God bless Fashola and Ambode wherever they are... They changed Lagos during their times...

Just imagine if it was Sanwo-Eko that entered after Bulaba govt in 2007, we for still dey use Molue and many roads would have still been bad .. but Fashola spearheaded all these reforms ..

Tonygeesm:
Ode,tribal illeterat. you cannot refer to anyone as an immigrant in is own country,the three tiers of gov is to protect and provide for for the citizens regardless where or who they are.

pain is that you?🤣🤣🤣 mumu man, you are still a f*cking migrant…if he pain you, hug the nearest transformer don’t hold the failures you elect in your shitty state responsible, don’t forget we still use state of origin

Smelly dirty Lagos lagoon state, after una insult and gra gra against those who wakes you up from your responsibilities, them go still go back to their vomit. Everybody knows that Lagos lagoon is a smelly state, but those ugly people no go understand

While some parts of Lagos indeed smell:

I've been to many states, and I'm yet to see any state muster development half that of Lagos.
I see many people (citizens) put refuse in waterways, blocking it—despite the culverts.

Government should punish people caught and make them an expensive scapegoat, as they work to jam up LAWMA.

It will also be sensible to see people deeply criticize government of their home states they run from to Lagos half as much as they criticize Lagos.

why not deal with banditry and kidnapping before recycling. Only inside zoo does recycling take priority over human life.
People are scared to move around, many have abandoned thier homes in thier villages , and yet th government has resources to focus on recycling.

All the countries in the world that started recycling dont have genocidal demicidal bandits and kidnappers terrorising their nation. Its like asking a person on fire to watch where they throw he cloths they tearing off their burning body.

What a joke, recycling is for people who are not in a zoo, and not for people stressed and scared to the edge of insanity .

the priorities of the government compared to the circumstances of the people , is like a horror movie version of the Simpsons, proper proper black comedy.

People are getting too scared to move around, and zoo government has sources to spare for recycling

thats how you know all of zoo government polices is coming from oyinbo in their 24 hours AC paradise embassies

in any normal country where he government values the life of the citizens and the government is not behind the terrorism, all army and police will be in the street complete with curfew and Marshall law, by the time poeples children are being kidnapped and killed in schools

Which kind of barbaric animal will talk about recycling when your children are no longer safe in school, when people can no longer feel safe in thier homes in remote areas.

better tell your oyinbo master zoo keepers , that people facing imminent danger dont recycle much. Its something they cannot understand from their comfortable embassies , and the creator works in mysterious ways upon the evils of the wicked.

Petrol tanker are blowing pople up every week , bandits are burning down towns, kidnappers are killing youths in school, and only in a zoo will the reply be recycling.