Lawyer Urges Oshodi Community to Obey Court Order on Waste Bill Payment

Counsel to Excellens Links International, a registered waste collection, management and administration company in Oshodi/Isolo LGA of Lagos State, David Fadile, has appealed to some residents of Oshodi against violating the 2022 Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) rates increment.

He said the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) in 2022, increased waste tariffs across the state, stating that the increment was necessitated due to the cost of diesel and foreign exchange, coupled with some operational costs.

He urged them not only to be law abiding but also to strictly keep to the court order prohibiting them from running campaigns in the social media to run down the Oshodi waste management companies.

Fadile said the people, who are less than 0.1 percent of the people of Oshodi, and that in 2022, about six individuals filed a suit against Excellens Links and Tunap Company, both PSP operators servicing Oshodi environs, on the ground of increase in waste disposal tariff.

”LAWMA has to effect an increase in waste tariff and my client being one of the franchisees of LAWMA, effected this increase in Oshodi community.

“So, it is this increase that these individuals, about five or six of them, led by Engr. Babatunde Faleye filed an action in court.”

According to him, “On December 18, 2023, the court struck out the suit, with the prayer that the claimants shall not use social media to campaign against the business of the third and fourth defendants – Excellens Links International Company and Tunap Company.”

He said, “Last year, they went to court in Suit No. ID/7076GCM/2023 to challenge Excellens Links and Tunap on the LAWMA increment but seeing that their case would be futile, their lawyer made to withdraw their suit but he was opposed to it by counsel to Excellens and Tunap.