LAWMA arrests 14, seizes scores of carts in Lagos enforcement

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has arrested 14 persons and confiscated scores of carts allegedly utilized by amerciable discarded collectors during abstracted enforcement operations crossed Lagos State.

LAWMA disclosed this successful a station shared connected the Lagos State Government’s Instagram leafage connected Monday, saying the intensified operations were targeted astatine curbing amerciable dumping and unauthorised discarded postulation crossed the state.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, said the enforcement exercises reflected the authority’s determination to amended compliance with discarded absorption regulations and curb practices that disrupt the approved strategy of discarded postulation and disposal.

According to Gbadegesin, the Lagos Island cognition covered Idumota, Oke-Popo, Tom Jones and Tinubu, wherever 14 individuals were arrested for assorted waste-related offences.

He said 1 of the offences progressive the amerciable disposal of discarded into the lagoon, stressing that the cognition was portion of ongoing efforts to enforce approved discarded absorption regulations crossed Lagos....