Lagosians kick as LAWMA commences exploitation of residents (see evidence)

– Pains as LAWMA engages in battle with indebted residents

– Residents react to unbearable LAWMA charges

Some residents of Ogba in Lagos state have expressed displeasure as they woke up one morning to behold a huge and ‘accumulated’ waste bill in front of their houses.

The residents have described the development as a means of exploitation from the service provider, the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWMA), with some others describing it as ‘unbearable and unaffordable’.

Among other indebted houses in the area are No 10, Erinosho street (indebted to the sum of N33, 600); 9, Mobolaji street (also indebted to tune of N41,000) and a N45, 000 debt owed by the 11th house on Mobolaji street, all in Ogba.

NAIJ.com’s Godday Eleojo also discovered that some of these houses got as much as N68,000 debt notice from the agency and in a survey of Erinosho area, it was gathered that some houses lack good foundation, structure, and suffer from bad and un-motorable roads.

A resident who simply identified herself as Mama Amaka, said that the bills is too much, stressing that if the occupants have such money, they would have occupied a better apartment and not that kind of apartment.

The bill presented by officials of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) obtained by NAIJ.com’s Godday Eleojo

“It is clear that we occupants of Erinosho don’t have money to pay for unnecessary bills because we wouldn’t have rented houses in this type of area if we had such monies. And Now the LAWMA, plans to make live difficult by placing a huge bill on us, which is unaffordable because we don’t know where to get the money from.

“The LAWMA officials in question don’t even come to our area because it is not motorable, they pack somewhere where on the road, while we run after them to dispose our wastes while some harass us that we have not paid for the service, and now we see bill on our door steps as a latest trend,” she complained.

Lawal Adewale, who resides at no 11 also confirmed that LAWMA placed a bill on his flat, “which they describe as an accumulated bill.

“I was shocked to see a notice that contains N45, 000 debt when I woke up one morning, we tried talking to the officials, but they insisted that it was an accumulation.”

Fear and pandemonium have continued to grip the hearts of these residents as the agency has clearly stated in its served notice that failure to pay up debts within a stipulated period, “the indebted resident will be locked out of his or her appartment and prosecuted, as provided by the Environmental Sanitation Edict/LAWMA 2001.”

Meanwhile, a LAWMA official who requested anonymity because he was not in the position to talk on the matter, but works with Gesstimate environmental protection company, told NAIJ.com that a single room is charged the sum of N200/month while a flat is charged N750/month, adding that the said amount would have been an accumulated amount used by the residents.

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