January 26, 2021
Ogun State Government has revealed its readiness to rehabilitate and incorporate Cart-Pushers into its new waste management reforms for optimal performance.
This is coming few weeks after banning them from operating across the state.
Chief Executive Officer, Ogun State Waste Management Authority (OGWAMA), Mr Ola Oresanya disclosed this during a meeting with leaders of Cart-Pushers, Scrap Vendors and Community Development Associations (CDA) in Abeokuta.
Oresanya, who also is the Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment was represented at the meeting by the agency Director of Operation, Mr Akinbode Sofela.
He remarked that the state government decided to incorporate them into its new waste management reforms instead of throwing them into unemployment markets and offer them new opportunities through its structured Private Service Providers (PSP) Scheme where they will work as loaders with steady income.
He added that some of them would be employed as community recyclers in its about to be established Community Recycling Centers in all the twenty local government council areas of the state.
“Under the new reforms, you will see that you have more than enough to do in the coming weeks. All you need to do now is to brace up for the new challenge as the Dapo Abiodun led government is determined to change your narrative from environmental bad boys to good boys,” he told the cart pushers.
Mr Oresanya informed them that training programmes would soon be organised for them for the new challenge and called on them to cooperate with OGWAMA for the realisation of the new reforms.
He stressed that anyone of them that fails to comply with the new order wouldl be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the Ogun State Environmental Laws.
On the scrap vendors,the Special Adviser frowned on their bad attitude of scattering bagged waste in search of iron scraps, warning them to desist from such act or face arrest, saying that their operation will soon be regulated to meet environmentally accepted standard.
In his reaction, leader of the cart pushers, Hassan Amidu thanked the state government for the new initiative and pledged his members cooperation.
Similarly, Prince Olatunde Okunowo of the Makogi CDA who spoke on behalf of the CDAs called on residents of communities to stop patronizing cart-pushers and scrap vendors for the successful implementation of the new waste management reforms.
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