INDISCRIMINATE WASTE DISPOSAL,OGUN SACTIONS 128 RESIDENTS ,20 INDUSTRIES

  As part of its continuous efforts at enforcing the state Environment Laws and instill proper waste management practices among residents,the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA have apprehended and sanctioned 128 residents and 20 Industries for indiscriminate waste disposal across the state.

  The residents who were sentenced to hours of community services committed environmental offense in Sango-Ota, Ifo, Ijebu-Ode ,Papa lanto and Abeokuta as they were caught disposing their wastes on median and public places while the Industries were equally  sanctioned after their trucks were caught disposing wastes on road verges along the Lagos-Ibadan and Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressways 

  

 According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser and Managing Director of OGWAMA,Hon Abayomi Hunye,the  residents and trucks of the Industries were apprehended by the authority's Enforcement Squad in the wee hours of the day while committing the improper waste disposal which is contrary to the state  environment laws.

    "What is of concern is the fact that those apprehended where deliberately determined to sabotage the state government efforts at keeping the state of clean at all times as it was discovered that they refused to patronize the government approved waste collectors in their communities and their companies for no just cause."

  "Their attitude is not just an affront to lawful government orders but deliberately  endangering the health and safety of other law-abiding residents of the state who have imbibed the spirit of  proper waste disposal and management for a cleaner, healthier and safer environment. "

 

   Hunye therefore assured that the authority's enforcement team will continue to monitor the roadside and public places to apprehend recaltriants residents and Industries who might go the way of those apprehended and sanctioned especially at this time of rainy season when waste dumped in discriminately will aid flooding and contaminate underground water especially in wetland areas which will affect the well-being of law abiding residents of the States. 

 

    He did not forget to commend residents and Industries in the state that continue to properly manage and dispose their waste revealing that OGWAMA will soon launch its "Blue Box Initiative" which will allow residents to exchange their plastic,paper and iron waste to revenue.