Lagos State Government is set to
re-introduce the monthly Environmental Sanitation as an enabling law to back
up the implementation is on the way.
Commissioner for The Environment
and Water Resources, Tunji Bello during a stakeholders’ meeting with
Association of Commodity Market Women and Men led by the Iyaloja General of
Nigeria, Chief Mrs Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, said the invalidation of the exercise
by a court sometimes ago was a temporary setback which would be reversed very
soon.
He said the meeting which also
had the Permanent Secretary, Mrs Ronke Odeneye and Managing Director of LAWMA,
Dr Muyiwa Gbadegeshin in attendance was convened to seek the buy-in of market
leaders, women and men on the government’s zero tolerance for indiscriminate
dumping of waste.
He told markets in the state who
had not engaged the service of PSP waste operators to link up with the State
Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and do so immediately and ensure that no
form of waste was taken to the roads henceforth.
Bello stated that in conjunction
with the appointed PSP waste operators, a point within the market must be
identified where all the waste generated should be gathered before being carted
away by the PSP operator.
The commissioner assured the
market leaders that the State would not hesitate to sanction PSP operators that
failed to perform their duties appropriately.
He said the government would have
no option but to shut any market that proved recalcitrant and still harboured
refuse or dump same on the roads.
Bello said as a form of
motivation, competitions would be re-introduced to recognise and reward markets
adjudged as the cleanest.
In her response, the President
ACWAM, Tinubu-Ojo said that she would ensure that market sanitation became a
daily task that all market leaders would adopt.
She assured that the association
was ready to cooperate with the state government to adopt all methods proposed
by the government to ensure cleanliness in all markets and it’s environs.
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