• Lagos Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab
The Lagos State Government has warned residents who fail to pay for waste management services rendered by Private Sector Participation operators that they could face criminal sanctions.
The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this during a radio programme on Friday while discussing the gains and challenges of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in the state.
Wahab said the government was reviewing the waste management system and would introduce measures to ensure residents paid for services provided by PSP operators.
He said, “All over the world, the standard policy for waste management is the ‘polluter-pays-principle’. But here in Lagos, some of our people want to free-ride the system and have therefore chosen not to pay for the services rendered by PSP operators.
