₦airaland Forum

PriceActionZ:
While I support sanitising that environment, because too much junks from abroad in that area, but everywhere in Lagos is terrible in terms of refuse dumping. Lawma services are overwhelmed and the so called PSP are no where to be found. Lagos is very dirty. Drive through everywhere, everywhere is littered.

This was one area where ambode and fashola really tried. But now, seems sanwolu government doesn't really care much. If not, they would have sanctioned all those psp owners that fail to function well.
And If state government cannot handle that, they should channel it to the local government. Let them take control of that. Lagos stinks and smells for now, don't let us lie to ourselves.

AlphaTaikun:
On the contrary, former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode didn't do well in that area. Remember that he wanted to use a new modern system with a White man in charge for clearing refuse in Lagos State with Ikorodu being the central hub, BUT that system collapsed due to the FACT that the PSPs were disengaged and Lagos State became the butt of jokes online BECAUSE Lagos was embarrassingly littered with mountains of stinking refuse.
Akinwunmi Ambode meant well BUT that public waste system collapsed and that's why APC's GAC and MOST APC Lagos members blocked his re-election. Babatunde Raji-Fashola did brilliantly well in sanitizing Oshodi and planted beautiful flowers, trees to have a proper landscaping of Lagos. This current Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu who I like for his policies in some areas in Lagos State has totally NOT done well in sustaining Babatunde Raji-Fashola's landscaping and greening of Lagos despite being a brilliant investment banker who rose to the senior rank of a Treasurer. He has to sit up with his Commissioner of Environmental or get him removed as a Commissioner!

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has to get his Commissioner of Environmental FIRED if he CANNOT come up with creative ways of clearing refuse BECAUSE the population in Lagos State is massive with refuse generated daily through innovative methods already in use around the world.

Some of us WITHOUT being in government have advanced knowledge of waste disposal in Asia, Europe, and North America. For instance:

The use of public Biogas toilets can generate electricity and cooking gas. This biogas technology can be used in homes, prisons, and Nigerian markets to process huge wastes especially from some of those dirty markets. Biogas from market wastes can be used to generate electricity from generators. I saw a few years ago a pilot biogas project at Mile 12 market and it successfully turned market wastes to biogas for use to generate electricity.

Even organic fertilizers can be generated from waste instead of allowing them to litter the streets. Houses can be fitted with biogas toilets as well so that the residents can use the biogas from their loos for cooking gas and electricity.

This isn't rocket science but Nigeria has a bunch of Governors and Commissioners who are NOT very imaginative or have a sense of urgency.

I propose that anybody planning to contest for the post of a Governor or Commissioner in Nigeria MUST be properly drilled in public debates on how they would deal with urban refuse disposal in a practical manner. The idea of Governors just coming in and NOT having practical solutions on how urban refuse or public wastes will be tackled has to STOP! Some lazy people too are highly notorious for dumping house wastes and refuse right at the center of road and highway medians in Ogun, Lagos, Nassarawa, Anambra, Aba especially in Abia State, and practically all over Nigeria as seen in videos and photographs posted online. This destroys the aesthetics of these areas. Traps should be set for these creeps and they should be made to do 2 weeks or more of community service by clearing up urban wastes and drainages. Period.

SonOfDSoil01:
cry go plenty for this thread…….ndi Lagos is no man’s land’ no tribe owns lagos” should have stopped state enforcement officers when they came to lock their shops,na for only internet Una get power😂😂😂😂

HelenaWills:
This is long over due.
Those guys are unnecessarily dirty and uncoordinated.
Demolish the market or move it to the innermost part of Ikorodu.

DenreleDave:
This is a big lie sir. You are understating the truth
Lawma has stopped regular collection since about 2 years ago...... They became so uselezzzzzzz

PriceActionZ:
Oh, you have good memories bro. I can relate to that ambode and psp owners saga. It's part of why they dealt with him. Bringing unpopular techniques to handle waste management without wider consultations, and it was a flop. I was passing oshodi last year, right inside the vehicle I was, just at bolade bus stop, I could sight a well dressed woman peeing during the day oo, around 2pm. She was peeing at the refuse abandoned on the road. I was like wtf is this man? My friends were like I never see anything. Common, Lagos state can do better.