Waste Management had been the major challenges
confronting state capital nationwide in Nigeria. According to reporter from Oshogbu the Osun
State capital in Nigeria who narrated their own side of story: the walk on
of the state capital reveals it is a city that is stumped on right of the road
dump site located in the conspicuous, however, its refuse indiscriminately dumped
on the road in the major highways on daily basis. This practice is high in many
of more markets are located including ODABAOGBONO,
ALEKWODO and amongst others.
Investigations shows that some of the residents
bring their waste late in the night and very early in the morning under the
cover of darkness to dump on the road side. This practice continues unabated
despite the availability of services of private waste collectors, who regularly
visit the neighborhoods to collect the wastes, and at the implement of five
hundred naira per month. Many Nigerians caught a secondary school age boy while
attempting to dump a loaded bag of Waste around 9.00 in the night along DUOGOLUWA ABILI highway. According to
the young boy who said that his mother asked him to drop the waste along the
way because there was no provision made for them to dump their refuses seem
justified to the listeners.
Another resident MR. NANKA KOLAORE added that the cost of expense on private
collectors at the rate of five hundred naira per month on waste management was
a difficult task for some families with low income to maintain. According to MR. NANKA KOLAORE, he said that there
is no way you can compare a family with children and a bachelor/spinster who
does not have liabilities to afford the same amount despite the availability of
the money.
From the solution mapped out, dumping waste in the
middle of the road was in compliance with the government directives when the
new waste management policy was introduced, according to waste management
authority personnel who said that the government had directed them to do so but
stopping them now might be very difficult due to the economic challenges facing
the country.
The general Manager of the Osun state Waste
Management Agency AHLJI. ILADO ABDUL GANIO
confirmed that government introduced the park ways or road maiden in order
to mobilize the people when the policy was newly introduced. AHLJI. ILADO ABDUL GANIO also told the
people to patronize the registered private waste collectors than dumping the
refuse as specified since it is polluting the environment. According to him he
said that they have ordered the people of the residence to patronized the newly
private waste collectors who are currently in partnership with the government,
negotiate with them for a token and they will pick your waste and throw away,
and asked them not to dump refuse
outside their gates by the road side.
AHLJI. ILADO ABDUL
GANIO said
anyone caught dumping waste by the roadside will be prosecuted by Osun state
Waste Management Agency.
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