LAGOS/Nigeria: The Lagos Waste Management Authority has commenced a large-scale waste evacuation exercise at Alaba Rago along the Lagos–Badagry Expressway as part of an intensified environmental sanitation campaign aimed at restoring cleanliness and protecting public health along one of the state’s busiest transport corridors.
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Muyiwa Gbadegesin, disclosed that operational teams had deployed bulk waste carriers, heavy-duty loaders and field personnel to remove refuse from identified illegal dump sites, describing the intervention as a structured response to recurring indiscriminate dumping and environmental degradation in the area.
Gbadegesin explained that following the clean-up at Alaba Rago, the sanitation drive would extend to Okokomaiko and the median around Lagos State University, locations classified as high-priority due to heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic as well as persistent sanitation challenges.
He added that the operation would subsequently move from Agric Bus Stop toward Mile 2, ensuring a systematic restoration of environmental standards across the entire expressway axis.
The LAWMA chief stressed that the initiative is not a one-off exercise but part of a sustained sanitation strategy that includes continuous monitoring, stakeholder engagement with traders and residents, public sensitisation campaigns and enforcement measures aimed at preventing a recurrence of indiscriminate waste disposal.
Reaffirming the agency’s commitment to a cleaner urban environment, Gbadegesin urged residents, motorists and business operators to desist from dumping refuse along highways and medians, assuring that surveillance and enforcement activities would be intensified to sustain cleanliness and safeguard public health across the corridor.
