LAWMA, police join forces to tackle illegal waste dumping, dumpsite encroachment in Lagos

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, and the Lagos State Police Command person agreed to fortify their concern to tackle indiscriminate discarded dumping, amerciable activities and encroachment astatine dumpsites crossed the state.

A connection by the Lagos State authorities said the 2 agencies besides agreed to amended the extortion of discarded absorption facilities and unit arsenic portion of efforts to guarantee a cleaner, safer and much sustainable Lagos.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, disclosed this connected Tuesday during a courtesy sojourn to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, astatine the Lagos State Police Command successful GRA, Ikeja.

Gbadegesin sought stronger constabulary enactment for the authority’s enforcement and operational activities, peculiarly successful areas affected by amerciable dumping and different biology violations.

He said the increasing colonisation of Lagos had continued to enactment unit connected the state’s discarded absorption infrastructure, contributing to the rising measurement of discarded generated crossed the metropolis.

According t...