Mr Ibrahim Odumboni, Acting Managing Director, Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), said the authority arrested 13 cart pushers and seized 29 carts for violating environmental laws of the state.
Odumboni disclosed this during the `Operation Rid Lagos of Cart Pushers’ by the authority on Saturday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who witnessed the operations reports that LAWMA visited areas such as: Ogudu, Ojota, Bariga, Ifako, Shomolu, Bajulaiye and Gbagada.
NAN reports that carts were intercepted at Ifako, New Garage, Okuta road, Bariga, Idiaba, Bajulaiye and other areas.
Photo caption: One of the cart-pushers at different locations in Bariga and Shomolu arrested by LAWMA Environmental task force, during the dislodgement of ‘cart-pushers’ exercise on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020.
The LAWMA boss said that the authority was concerned about the growing environmental degradation in some parts of the state, occasioned by the activities of cart pushers.
He said that the organisation had clamped down on all forms of cart pushing, in a bid to return sanity to the affected areas in the state.
Odumboni said the authority had also stepped up efforts to make Lagos cleaner and liveable for all, by introducing novel waste management programmes.
He urged the residents to patronise Private Sector Participation (PSP) operators for them to discharge their primary duties effectively.
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