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Governor Babatunde Fashola commissioning the recycling plant in Igando

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Tuesday inaugurated a N1bn material recovery facility in Igando, designed to convert waste into reusable materials.

The first phase of the project was delivered with machines that have the capacity to process different types of refuse into raw materials for plastic and rubber industries.

Inaugurating the project, Fashola said it was a demonstration of the government’s commitment to improve the environment while creating some economic benefits.

He said that the project was conceived out of the need to ensure a cleaner environment by converting waste, which could have been a burden, into usable materials.

According to the governor, the facility is a conservation strategy to confront the threats of climate change and will also provide jobs for residents.

“This is a material recovery facility and what will it be doing? The whole world is re-using, the whole world is conserving, so nothing really will ever go to waste in any significant proportion.

“So that is what we are signing on to, we are joining the whole world by having this project.

“What we now have is a new problem. Our problem before was that we were the dirtiest city in the world, a reputation we have now consigned to history.

“Now the new problem is how to move our refuse. The problem is how to get more refuse, because this facility needs more refuse to run.

“The sustainability of this factory now is how much refuse it can get, and as we have been told, it will service 130 trucks on a daily basis in the first phase before the expansion comes,” he said.

The governor said that the second phase of the project would commence by December.

He said that on completion, power would be generated from refuse processed at the facility.

Fashola said what that meant was that people in Igando, Egbe and other areas around the facility should expect regular power supply by 2016.

He said the facility was in redemption of his electoral promise to ensure a cleaner environment, adding that his job was done with the delivery of the project and several others.

The governor urged residents to give the needed support to the incoming administration to bring about a cleaner and more sustainable environment.

Mr Tunji Bello, the Commissioner for the Environment, thanked Fashola for his support, saying his belief in the project ensured its actualisation.

He said he was optimistic that the project would not only promote the environment, but would also help the state in mitigating the effects of climate change.

Mr Ladi Balogun, the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank, which financed the project, said the facility had a high economic value.

He said over N1bn was invested in the project, which if operating in full capacity, would contribute N3bn to the state’s GDP annually.

Balogun said his bank was proud to be associated with the project, promising that the organisation would continue to partner the state.

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Great job my future president...

Promise delivered

Good thinking . . . Good product. Fashola you have my respect sir!

This guy is a thinker not d so called AregebeRascal dat cant even pay workers salary. No wonder Tinubu is fighting him for not giving him state money. Ride on Mr Governor, one day you will lead dis country.

I am so happy about this. The offensive smell emanating from the dump site at Igando will stop.

Eko oni baje o!

Temitemi1,you see what I told you about the dump site at Igando? Oya come see o!

Fashola don overtake johnny for ds 'commissioning' game sha, bad guy

Nice!

IyaIode:
Promise delivered

at the eleventh hour. what was his achievement throughout his 2nd tenure?
SCAM

This Fashola sha...

beta guvnor

We need a cease and desist order against Fashola.

We need more Fashola..

R

You got a point there

MzJackBaueress:
I am so happy about this. The offensive smell emanating from the dump site at Igando will stop.

Eko oni baje o!

Temitemi1,you see what I told you about the dump site at Igando? Oya come see o!

temitemi1:
You got a point there

So, Fashola is now your hero.

This should be at the FP already nah.

Lalasticlala ishilove Seun.

History will be very kind to babatunde raji fashola(SAN).

shegxi:
History will be very kind to babatunde raji fashola(SAN).

for looting lagos to debt.

comos:
at the eleventh hour. what was his achievement throughout his 2nd tenure?
SCAM

smoking marijuana in the afternoon makes you think backwards

comos:
for looting lagos to debt.

i am tempted to give u a proper reply, bt i checked thru ur posts and noticed u only see thru d lens of tribalism and partisanship so i will let it pass.

fashola should stop commissioning anything.. Is lagos the only state in Nigeria? What is this self?

Truly even Tanoids would admit admiration for this man. I'm proud of the profession. I sight Osibanjo; indeed Law for Technocrats.

Honestly, all the politician are the same, there is no difference between the parties, stealing travails at all levels of government. I wonder where Fashola and his government established the 1billion naira plant,

I hope Ajimobi is watching Fashola....he should try and replicate same in IBadan to be specific....iwo road to alakia is the headquarters of refuse in Yorubaland...he should do something

JingoOAU:
I hope Ajimobi is watching Fashola....he should try and replicate same in IBadan to be specific....iwo road to alakia is the headquarters of refuse in Yorubaland...he should do something

Possible.that is, if people start paying appropriate taxes

"Why is Fashola commissioning recycling plant when people in Lagos have not eaten" - TANoid

oduastates:
He would that is if people start paying appropriate taxes

Why wouldn't the people pay tax....forcefully, they will

That's too expensive. I live close to that plant. That plant doesn't look a billion naira

Boscojugunu:
That's too expensive. I live close to that plant. That plant doesn't look a billion naira

picture or I don't believe you.

GEJ own no pass ground breaking ceremony now.. All due respect observed

stinggy:
Fashola don overtake johnny for ds 'commissioning' game sha, bad guy