COMMISSIONER for Environment Mr. Tunji Bello and Lagos State Waste Management Agency’s (LAWMA’s) Managing Director, Ibrahim Odumboni, have been urged to intervene in the matter involving non-use of LAWMA for refuse clearance by Ladipo market auto dealers.
President-General of Ladipo Central Executive Auto Dealers Market Association (LASEC) at Mushin in Lagos State, Mr. Jude Nwankwo, said his members abandoned LAWMA for PSPs because the agency had refused to evacuate refuse from the market, yet wanted payment.
Nwankwo spoke after a team from LAWMA’s Enforcement Unit gave the market a clean bill following government’s threat to Ladipo and Oyingbo markets to keep the markets clean or be closed permanently.
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He said: “What the government demanded from us is what we have done. We have cleaned the market and canals.
“Our market is the biggest in West Africa. We need to keep it clean to make it attractive to our customers.
“The LAWMA team expressed satisfaction with our sanitation and urged us to continue in this spirit,” he added.
President of People of Southeast Region (POSER), Everest Ozonnwere, said: “I can say that Ladipo Market’s level of compliance with LAWMA’s directive is over 80 per cent.”