Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has banned all waste cart pushers from operating in the state with immediate effect.
A statement on Wednesday by the chief executive officer of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, Ola Oresanya, said recent security reports had indicted the waste cart pushers of complicity in crimes across the state.
Mr Oresanya, who is also the special adviser to the governor on environment, said the activities of the cart pushers constitute a security risk to the residents of the state.
He said, “While they are operating, our people innocently open their premises and commercial outlets to them for the evacuation of their wastes, but unknowingly to them, these cart pushers who are mostly foreigners collate vital information on how to compromise the security of their premises and pass them to the men of the underworld and sometimes join them to rob and terrorize our people.”
The governor’s aide said apart from their security risk, the cart pushers “deface the aesthetic beauty of the state by their indiscriminate dumping of refuse.”
Oresanya, therefore, called on the residents of the state to patronise Waste PSP in the area for prompt, effective and structured service.
