Ogun State Government says it has banned all waste cart pushers from operating in the state with immediate effect, saying they constitute security risks to residents of the state.
According to the government, recent security reports had indicted the waste cart pushers’ complicity in crimes in various parts of the state.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment and Chief Executive Officer of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, Ola Oresanya, announced this through a statement in Abeokuta.
Oresanya said the activities of the cart pushers constitute a security risk to the residents of the state.
He declared that henceforth, any waste cart pusher caught operating in the state would be arrested and his cart crushed.
“While they are operating, our people innocently open their premises and commercial outlets to them for the evacuation of their wastes, but unknowingly to them, these cart pushers who are mostly foreigners 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.
Oresanya added that part from their security risk, the cart pushers also “deface the aesthetic beauty of the state by their indiscriminate dumping of refuse.”
“Their exit is a good riddance to a bad rubbish,” he said.
He implored residents of the state to patronise Waste PSP in their areas for prompt, effective, and structured service.
According to him, the government’s new waste management economic programmes of waste reduction, waste use, and waste recycling “are already providing employment opportunities for the youths and the women across the state.”
