•Residents battle council chairmen
By Olasunkanmi Akoni, Esther Onyegbula, Juliet Umeh & Cynthia Alo
As mountains of refuse continue to dot major roads, markets and residential communities across
Lagos, while floods repeatedly submerge neighbourhoods after heavy rainfall, a fundamental question is increasingly being asked by residents: If the 57 Local Government Areas, LGAs, and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, receive monthly statutory allocations, why has waste management and drainage maintenance become a challenge?
The question has gained urgency in recent months as the state battles one of its worst waste disposal challenges in years.
