The Lagos State Government on Saturday inaugurated a Special Task Force to monitor the metropolis, bus stops, garages, and lay-bys against indiscriminate waste dumping, charging transport union members to act as waste police henceforth
Addressing the meeting at Alausa, which had in attendance top government functionaries and the leadership of the two main transport unions, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Commissioner for Transportation Oluwaseun Osiyemi commended the unions for past collaboration and especially on the reintroduced monthly sanitation exercise.
“The meeting this morning is nothing but a call for more collaboration,” the Commissioner stated: “Our beautiful city is being challenged by indiscriminate refuse disposal and environmental abuse; we cannot fold our arms while people carry waste from their homes and dump it on roads, medians, and public spaces. This is totally unacceptable.”
The Commissioner noted that while the Lagos State Government remains committed to enforcing environmental laws, the cooperation of transport unions is indispensable, given their strategic presence across the State.
“We cannot be on every road twenty-four hours a day; we are not abandoning this responsibility to you, neither are we doing it alone; what we are asking for is collaboration because this fight is not for government alone; it is for all of us. In collaboration with LAWMA, some of your union members will act as our waste police,” he said.
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