LAWMA sacks street sweepers, service provider over indiscriminate waste dumping in Lagos

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has disengaged a fig of thoroughfare sweepers, their supervisors and the work supplier overseeing their operations pursuing allegations of indiscriminate discarded disposal successful parts of the state.

LAWMA said its investigations and surveillance established that the affected workers were progressive successful dumping garbage connected the median on the Oworonshoki-Berger axis.

The country has been identified arsenic a recurring discarded disposal hotspot successful Lagos.

LAWMA Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, disclosed the improvement successful a connection published connected the authority’s societal media platforms connected Saturday.

Gbadegesin said investigations conducted by the authorization linked the affected sweepers to the alleged amerciable dumping, adding that immoderate of them reportedly admitted their engagement during questioning.

He said the disengagement was indispensable to reenforce accountability among unit and contractors liable for maintaining biology cleanliness crossed the state.

“The sweepers, their supervisors and the work supplier were disengaged from the cleaning cognition to underscore the Authority’s committedness to ensuring that each unit and work providers engaged successful discarded absorption successful the State upheld the standards expected of them and did not lend to the biology ...