Lagos inaugurates Special Task Force to tackle waste in parks, bus stops

The Lagos State Government has inaugurated a Special Task Force to coordinate the contiguous evacuation of garbage from transport parks, autobus stops, and garages crossed the metropolis, portion besides informing against indiscriminate discarded dumping and the emergence of amerciable structures wrong centrifugal parks.

The inaugural is portion of renewed efforts to reconstruct biology bid successful Africa’s astir populous city, pursuing a directive by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mandating a 24-hour intensified discarded evacuation cognition crossed the state.

Speaking astatine an exigency stakeholders’ gathering with transport national leaders successful Alausa, Ikeja, connected Saturday, the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said the involution became indispensable owed to continued misuse of nationalist spaces by immoderate residents and transport operators.

He said the authorities could nary longer disregard the increasing occupation of indiscriminate dumping of garbage connected roads, medians, and different nationalist areas.

“Our beauteous metropolis is being challenged by indiscriminate garbage disposal and biology abuse. We cannot fold our arms portion radical dump discarded connected roads, medians and nationalist spaces. This is wholly unacceptable,” Osiyemi said.

He emphasised that portion enforcement would beryllium strengthened, collaboration with transport unions remains essential, fixed their strategical beingness successful parks and garages crossed the stat...