Nigeria: Lagos Govt Arrests Operators for Illegal Dumping of Waste

20 February 2018

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it had arrested four officials of a Private Sector Participant (PSP) operator in waste management, Ayomide Olayinka Ventures, for dumping waste on the street along the Central Business District (CBD) of Lagos Island "in the middle of the night".

In a statement signed by Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, the government said the suspects were arrested by security operatives in the early hours of Tuesday while they were using their compactor with registration number FST 908 XG to dump refuse on the street.

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