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April 10, 2012

LAWMA boss reassures on clean Lagos

By AKOMA CHINWEOKE

LAGOS – Managing Director of Lagos State Waste Management  Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ola Oresanya, has assured that despite the enormous challenges associated with cleaning  the state, LAWMA will not relent in identifying the capacities within different sectors to ensure that the job was done.

Oresanya, said this in Lagos at the official presentation of a Piagio tricycle tipper to LAWMA by Boulos Enterprise Limited.

He said work was in progress in creating wealth from waste.

At the event, General Manager, Boulos Enterprise Limited, Mr. Rabih Sawaya, said the company made the donation as part of its corporate social responsibility.

He explained that  LAWMA is producing compose which is organic fertilizer and  other waste recycling materials,  adding that the authority would do more to ensure that it increased the opportunities  in  waste recycling.

He  said that  remediation and restoration project were on-going  at the Ojota refuse dump site which, according to him, is also combined with the waste to energy project and assured that all hands are on deck to make Lagos one of the cleanliest cities in the country.