The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is proposing a 50 percent tariff review from October 1.
Managing Director of the agency Ibrahim Odumboni said the pricing review will however be subject to peculiar circumstances, after a review with critical stakeholders.
According to Odumboni, the rising cost of diesel from the 2022 first quarter had posed huge challenges for operators.
“Of the key challenges facing the PSP operators, the first is the rising cost of operation, the cost of overheads, majorly diesel, and spare parts for their trucks. That is why we are in the process of extensive and consultative pricing review for PSP services in homes knowing well that we are trying to recognise the economic trend in Nigeria, but also trying to ensure that we are not introducing any change that will automatically disenfranchise people and increase the waste menace in our immediate society,” he noted.
Odumboni addressed reporters on activities of the agency from January till August 2022.
According to him, 83 persons were convicted and jailed, over 1,200 penalised to sweep, and over 3,000 fined for offences relating to indiscriminate disposal of waste in the last one year. This, he said, was necessary to deter the bad culture of waste management.
The managing director lamented that truck pushers are guilty of dumping waste in canals and drainages, thereby blocking the drainages and causing flooding. He, however, said the enforcement team has seized over 1,400 carts in the last two months ‘to ensure a more formal, agreeable and consistent system of waste is introduced in our society.’
