HEAD of tomorrow’s sanitation, Lagosians were yesterday warned to refrain from patronising the itinerant cart pushers to dispose their refuse.
Sounding the note of warning, Environment Commissioner, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the waste collected from tenements by the cart pushers, are being discharged into the drainage channels and unauthorised places.
Bello reminded residents and travellers that human and vehicular movements will be restricted between 7am and 10am, urging them to use the period to clean up their environment.
He said that operators of the Private Sector Participation (PSP) scheme have been duly mobilsed by the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to ferry refuse from homes to designated landfill sites.
The commissioner said that anybody caught contravening the regulations would be prosecuted according to the environmental sanitation laws.
He urged Lagosians to join hands with the government in its effort to rid the state of all forms of environmental abuses as well as desist from dumping waste in the drains with the approach of the rainy season.
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