For constituting security risk to the residents of the state, the Ogun State government has banned all waste cart pushers operating in the state with immediate effect.
According to Ola Oresanya, special adviser to the Governor on Environment and chief executive officer of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, any waste cart pusher caught operating henceforth in the state will be arrested and his cart crushed.
Oresanya said that a recent security report had indicted them of complicity in crimes across the state.
“While operating, our people innocently opened their premises and commercial outlets to them for the evacuation of their wastes but unknowingly to them, these cart pushers who are mostly foreigners who collate vital information on how to compromise the security of their premises and pass them to the men of the underworld and sometimes join them to rob and terrorize our people,” he said.
Aside from their security risk, he also accused the waste cart-pushers of defacing the aesthetic beauty of the state by their indiscriminate dumping of refuse on medians and unauthorized places saying their exit is good riddance to bad rubbish.
The special adviser, therefore, called on the residents of the state to patronize Waste PSP in the area for prompt, effective, and structured service.
He added that the new waste management economic programmes of waste reduction, waste use, and waste recycling of the state government are already providing employment opportunities for the youths and the women across the state.
