The Lagos Waste Management Authority has charged residents to embrace waste containerisation to help prevent flooding during rainy season. 

In a statement signed by LAWMA’s public affairs director, the agency’s managing director, Ibrahim Odumboni, made the appeal on Tuesday, during an advocacy programme in Agege LGA and Orile-Agege LCDA. 

“We have come to encourage you to do the right thing at the right time, by procuring bins provided by LAWMA. Those wastes alongside the ones dumped inside drainage would cause flooding when it rains.”

Mr Odumboni said Lagos youths would be trained on waste policing, to “assist health officers and help carry out enforcement against recalcitrant tenements.” 

He added that “Some of these unemployed youths can also key into the business opportunities in recycling by sorting recyclable wastes like pet bottles, cans, cartons, sachet nylons, e.t.c, which can be sold to companies.” 

The LAWMA boss implored market associations in the councils, community development associations, artisans and residents, to patronise assigned PSPs, and desist from the patronage of cart-pushers.

In his speech, chairman of Agege LGA, Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi, represented by the vice chairman, Gbenga Abiola, said a bill to support the environment and promote sanitation in the area was in the offing.

In his remarks, chairman of Orile-Agege LCDA, Johnson Babatunde, represented by the vice-chairman, Akanni Pedro Oluwatoyin, thanked LAWMA for the event.

Also commenting, council leader of Agege LGA, Nojeem Oloruntoyin, said the legislative arm of the council would enact laws to empower youths in waste management.