By GBENGA ARIYIBI
ADO-EKITI—The authorities of Ekiti State Waste Management Agency,EKWMA, has vowed to seal off any defaulting bank operating in the state that has failed to pay the N5,000 monthly waste disposal fee.
Mean time, the agency has completed arrangement to drag 232 persons to a mobile court for allegedly defying the payment of monthly N500 waste disposal fee to the contractors handling the work in Ado-Ekiti
Chairman of the agency, Mr. Morakinyo Adebayo, said this at briefing in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday.
Morakinyo, a former member of the state House of Assembly, expressed disgust over the non-challant attitude by some of the private organisations and individuals over the payment of the refuse disposal fees
He, however, pledged that no defaulter would be treated as sacred cows, stressing that the agency had concluded arrangement to drag the defaulters before the mobile court to try the offenders.
The chairman noted that banks operating in Lagos pay with enthusiasm, N50,000 to Lagos State Waste Management Agency monthly for the same service, which the banks in Ekiti State had refused to value.
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