The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, says it intercepted a truckload of banned Styrofoam packs at Ojuelegba area of the state.
The Public Relations Officer, LAGESC, Mr Ajayi Lukman, who confirmed this on Friday, August 9, 2024, in a statement, said the Mercedes-Benz 814 truck, with Reg. No. AJK 140 LG, loaded with Styrofoam valued at about ₦2.0 million, belonged to a Cameroonian national.
The spokesperson said that the owner claimed the truck was carrying the goods through Akwa-Ibom for sales in the Central African country.
Lukman said that Styrofoam was still banned in Lagos State, stressing that wherever it was found in the state, the agency’s operatives would seize them as it posed environmental hazard.
He said that the Corps Marshal, Maj. Olaniyi Cole (rtd), was sad to find out that some people still made use of the prohibited item in Lagos State after the ban.
The Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, in January 2024, announced a total ban of the use and distribution of Styrofoam and other single-use plastics across the state.
By Moses Omorogieva
