The current refuse mess in the Lagos metropolis, which has seen heaps of refuse springing up on several major roads in the state and many streets littered with free-flying refuse will soon be arrested.

This is because Visionscape Sanitation Solutions (the major partner in the Cleaner Lagos initiative) and Private Sector Participant operators (PSPs) have reached an agreement to now work together as partners in order to achieve a cleaner and healthier Lagos. Consequently, there is now hope that sanitation will soon return to the streets of Lagos.

The Cleaner Lagos Initiative sent out a tweet via its Twitter handle @cleanerlagos that the PSPs will resume their previous role as local and residential waste collectors while Visionscape will direct waste management infrastructure reforms across the state. The PSPs will now be known as Waste Collection Operators.

In early 2017, the government suspended the PSP’s from refuse collection in several parts of the state. Since then, the city of Lagos has been plagued by huge piles of refuse dumps across the city and even within the Central Business Districts. Following criticisms by stakeholders and residents of the state, an olive branch has been extended to the aggrieved operators in order to sort out long drawn issues.

The Chairman of the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, AWAM, Oladipo Egbeyemi, while thanking the Lagos State Government for supporting the PSP operators through the trying period, re-assured Lagos residents of an improvement in the environmental sanitation conditions of the state in the coming weeks.

Photo Credit: Thisday