The Ogun State Government has announced that it has concluded plans to facilitate private sector participation in waste management across the state.
The state’s Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Bolaji Oyeleye, has said, disclosed that the move was to put an end to the indiscriminate dumping of refuse across the state.
He said, “We are trying to carry out our mandate, which has to do with the protection, management, and development of the environment. We are working on waste management and also watching companies in terms of the emission levels as well as the level of noise pollution.
“Importantly, the issue of waste management is also a serious concern for us at the ministry; that is why we are trying to introduce the PSP scheme in waste management, because we have been solely responsible, as it were, for waste management in the state. We are aware that it is not sustainable on the long run; we have less to spend now as against what it used to be.”
The commissioner said the scheme would begin in the major cities such as Ado-Odo Ota, Abeokuta, Mowe/Ibafo, Ijebu Ode and Sagamu, and that cart-pushers will be banned so that people can key into the scheme, especially along the corridor of Mowe and Ibafo, where law and order have broken down and people are dumping wastes indiscriminately.
