Lagos State Government on
Monday arrested 30 cart pushers for allegedly dumping refuse indiscriminately
on road medians in some areas of the state.
Chairman of the State’s
Task Force on Environmental and Other Special Offences (Enforcement Unit),
Olayinka Egbeyemi, said the suspects reportedly committed the offence in the
middle of the night.
Egbeyemi, who affirmed that
the activities of cart pushers in the state remain illegal, said investigations
found them culpable in dumping refuse on the roadside, thereby sabotaging
efforts by the government to keep the state clean.
“There are reports that
refuse are littering the Lekki, Victoria Island, Ajah and other parts of the
state and investigations reveal that it is the handiwork of unscrupulous
elements within Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and their
outside sponsors who are not comfortable with the new arrangement for the
management of waste in the state and are hell-bent on sabotaging government
effort and frustrating them from carrying it out, Egbeyemi said in a statement.
“The state government has
vowed to go all out against the saboteurs and after their sponsors and punish
them in line with the laws of the State.
“We also need to let
Lagosians know that it is illegal to use cart pushers to evacuate refuse and
they should stop encouraging it; there are PSP vehicles that come around to
pack refuse and they are the ones they should patronise and not these cart
pushers.
“We want to notify all
these cart pushers that their activities are illegal in Lagos. Lagos is a
megacity and we have all it takes to collect refuse. So, the issue of going to
the streets and collecting refuse and then dump same on the road is an act of
sabotage to the government,” he added
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