The Lagos State Government has charged Private Sector Participation (PSPs) waste operators to deliver immediate results and end the lingering refuse crisis across the state, following the emergency rehabilitation of the Solus and Olusosun dumpsites as well as a sweeping leadership shake-up at the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA
Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, speaking during an inspection of the previously shut Solus facility, Alimosho Local Government Area, LGA, on Wednesday, stressed that the government has fulfilled its end of the bargain by fixing the dumpsite and its access routes, leaving operators with no further excuses for uncollected waste.
”Too much is given, so much more is expected. There are no more excuses,” Wahab said, recounting his message to the PSP leadership.
“The state government has done its own bit; let your PSPs members also put their skin in it and see how they can achieve what we set out jointly to achieve because they suggested we put this into play and now we’ve done it for them.”
According to Wahab, the decision to reopen Solus—located in the heart of Lagos West, the state’s largest zone covering: Alimosho, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Mushin, Badagry, Ikeja, Ojo, and Apapa—came after operators proposed reviving the closed site rather than waiting to open a new facility around Badagry and Epe.
With the contractor assuring the state that the newly repaired access road will last at least a year with quarterly maintenance, Wahab noted that the site is projected to handle at least 100 trucks daily.
”100 trucks from this axis coming here to discharge gives us the comfort that our streets, our homes will not be littered with waste,” the commissioner stated.
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