30 arrested for illegal waste disposal
THE enforcement unit of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has apprehended 30 suspects caught engaging in indiscriminate waste disposal at various locations in Ipaja and Ikate-Surulere areas of the state. Managing Director, LAWMA, Ibrahim Odumboni, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the suspects, who were arrested during enforcement operations across the state would soon be prosecuted. Odunmboni added that LAWMA team also dismantled shanties and illegal structures in the process. He said the agency had launched a robust operation to dislodge scavengers and miscreants from illegal dumpsites across neighborhoods in the city, for a cleaner and healthier environment. The LAWMA boss said: “In the past few days, the LAWMA enforcement team has been routinely patrolling neighborhoods across the state, notorious for illegal refuse dumping and the presence of scavengers, rummaging through waste piles, contributing to littering and unsightly landscapes and public spaces." “The act...