Waste Inundates Oshodi, as Cholera Ravages
Fadekemi Ajakaiye
Oshodi, a Lagos suburb and administrative headquarters of Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area of the State is being swallowed up by filthy unevacuated wastes notwithstanding that cholera is on the prowl across the country.
The waste daily building up unmoved for disposal across the inner streets in some of the council wards reports say are inducing fears and consternation in people with a resident on Ibidun Street, the Arowojobe area of Ogunoloko, D1 Ward, Mr. Ope Ibidun, remarking: “It is now that there’s cholera outbreak
CDA chairman please help us to look into this matter.”
Wastes said to be in filled up drums, containers of all sorts, sacks and bags are fast spreading and littering surroundings in such areas as the Inner parts of Mafoluku and the Ogunoloko D1 Ward with non-appearance of the assigned PSP Operators to move and evacuate them for disposal.
Noticed to have been badly affected in the Ogunoloko D1 Ward are such inner Arowojobe Streets as Ibidun, Salawu, Oremeji, Ogunkoya, Oseni-Ewu, Sule, Olorunishola, Shehu Close and the surroundings and in the Mafoluku Ward, Branco Street, Ari Ori, Apakun Lane, and Eyinogun Street, among others.
Many residents are said to be unable to help the situation, leaving their filth littering their frontages while others are now in the habit of moving their own away at night to dump in unknown locations far away from home.
With protests against a raise on waste tariffs from N450 to N800 per room a month and N1,000 a shop, the Lagos State House of Assembly Environment Committee and the State Waste Management Authority(LAWMA) had altered the originally approved four(4), five(3) wards structure waste management of the LG, which had just two PSP operators managing wastes evacuation and disposal in the council area at four wards for one and three for the other for nearly 25years, bringing in three additional operators to now assign them one Ward each and refixing the the waste charges at N500 a month per room from N800 and N600 a month for a shop from N1,000, hoping for a better waste evacuation and disposal management, but as it is now, it’s not exactly working out as envisaged as the new operators are not sufficiently equipped neither do they possess the dynamism to be able to cope, throwing most parts of the council area in the prevailing imbroglio.
