Oba Akiolu Enjoins Market Women, PSP to embrace CLI

Oba Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, has cautioned the Private Sector Participants (PSP) operators in waste management to desist from allowing themselves to be used to sabotage the new environmental policy of the Lagos State Government encapsulated in the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI).

Oba Akiolu stated these at a Town Hall meeting held recently at the City Hall, Lagos Island.

The essence of the Town Hall meeting was to sensitise market women and others on the Cleaner Lagos Initiative project and the need to ensure a cleaner environment.

Oba Akiolu warned residents of the state against dumping refuse in public places. Lagosians should ensure that the state was not littered with refuse, warning that he would not beg for anybody who is arrested by the state govern- ment for dumping refuse in unauthorised places.

He stated that Cleaner Lagos Initiative is for the benefit of all and called for support for Visionscape in a bid to rid Lagos state of refuse.

Oba Akiolu stated that he learnt that 13 people had been arrested for dumping refuse in unauthorised places, adding that Lagosians should desist from such act. He encouraged them to bag their waste and put them in appropriate places where Visionscape would cart them away. The State government had put in place mechanism to deal with waste in Lagos and that this kind of sensitization programme would also be carried out in other parts of the state, the Oba said.

He further urged Lagosians to desist from patronising cart pushers as some of them hide arms in their carts to wreak havoc, as well as dump such refuse in inappropriate places.