The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is to procure compactor trucks and lease them to Private Sector Participation (PSP) operators in waste management to boost operations and ensure a cleaner Lagos.
Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, who gave the assurance in an interview in Lagos, said that LAWMA had continued to support the PSP operators to ensure that they would be better equipped to discharge their duties more efficiently and responsibly.
He noted that their operations were being subsidised by the state government monthly to encourage them.
According to him, the growing population of Lagos State requires more efficient and effective waste management.
“Unfortunately, because of the economic situation, volatility in the foreign exchange market and increasing cost of diesel, a lot of the PSP operators are struggling.
“We are developing an intervention programme where we are going to bring in trucks and make them available to them on lease basis,” Gbadegesin said.
The LAWMA boss said that the intervention had become necessary to eliminate gaps in service delivery by the operators.
He said that LAWMA, with the support of 428 PSP operators, had been evacuating waste from all parts of the state, plying 40 routes two or three times daily to ensure a cleaner Lagos.
He appealed to residents of the state to desist from indiscriminate dumping of waste to ensure sustainability of the environment.
By Fabian Ekeruche