LAWMA arrests three for illegal waste dumping in Lagos

The Lagos Waste Management Authority has arrested 3 individuals for allegedly engaging successful amerciable discarded disposal during an overnight enforcement cognition carried retired successful the Ketu-Alapere country of Lagos State.

The improvement was disclosed successful a connection released on Sunday by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, done his verified X handle.

According to the statement, the cognition was conducted by the LAWMA Waste Infractions Surveillance and Investigation Team betwixt May 8 and May 9, 2026, arsenic portion of ongoing efforts by the authorities authorities to curb indiscriminate discarded dumping crossed Lagos.

The commissioner stated that the suspects were apprehended portion illegally disposing of garbage astatine unauthorised locations wrong the Ketu-Alapere axis.

“As portion of ongoing efforts to destruct amerciable discarded dumping wrong the state, the LAWMA Waste Infractions Surveillance and Investigation Team conducted an overnight surveillance cognition from May 8 to 9, 2026, successful the Ketu Alapere axis,” the connection read.

Wahab added that the suspects were traced to their residences during investigations aimed astatine identifying the reasons down their actio...