Lagos Waste Reporter

The Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has asked Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area and the residents, to set up a waste policing outfit, to curb reckless waste disposal practices in the community. He said this during the second stakeholders’ meeting organized for local government and LCDAs across the state, on clean and sustainable environment, held at Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area, Owutu, while addressing market officials, representatives of CDAs/CDCs, and other stakeholders. The LAWMA boss noted that a waste policing outfit would create jobs for the youths and check unhygienic habits that deface the environment, adding that LAWMA was ready to offer all needed assistance in the area of training. According to him, “You need to empower the youths in Ikorodu West LCDA and create jobs for them through waste policing. You have the constitutional backing, use your byelaws to establish wh

PRESS RELEASE The Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni has charged residents of Apapa and its environs, on pro-active steps towards ridding the environment of illegal dumpsites, and total eradication of reckless waste disposal practices. He also urged them to raise a formidable waste policing team, to enforce that objective. Odumboni gave the charge at Apapa Local Government Secretariat, Apapa, at an inaugural stakeholders' meeting and public sensitization with residents and other stakeholders, scheduled to take place in all the 57 Local Governments and LCDAs of the state. The LAWMA boss said the time had come for the Authority to engage with residents and all stakeholders, to rid the council of filth and enthrone a new regime of cleanliness and sustainable environment. "The chairman of Apapa Local Government has been at the front burner of ensuring that this council gets rid of indiscriminate wast