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Lagos waste management crisis: Operators seek Ambode’s intervention
IF the threats by the private waste disposal operators in Lagos State, under the aegis of Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, are anything to go by, possible reappearance of heaps of refuse on the highways and streets is imminent.
Already, the signs are there as many neighbourhoods and streets are filled with heaps of refuse, waiting for evacuation.
Calling on the Lagos Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode to wade into the current crisis, the association’s chairman, Mr Olabode Coker, who spoke with Nigerian Tribune, listed three major areas that required urgent attention to include delay at the various dumpsites; non-registration of about 126 original operators that were allegedly supplanted by bringing close to 50 non-operators from outside, and the proposed engineering land-fill site that said would take two years to be actualised.
Nigerian Tribune, November 8, 2017
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