Have you ever passed by Ojota going towards Maryland in Lagos? Then you would have noticed the Olusosun dumpsite that stinks to the high heavens. The news is that Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) said yesterday
that it would soon turn the Olusosun dumpsite in
Ojota into a golf course. Tagged as Nigeria's most popular refuse dump, Olusosun has been a
subject of foreign documentaries in the past because of the many activities of scavengers at
the site.
The managing director of LAWMA, Mr Ola Oresanya, said the golf course project would come
under the agency's second 10-year-rolling plan.
"In the rolling plan, we are focusing
downstream and our downstream is at the disposal sites. Our landfills development is a real focus, we already sign contract for
development of our state of the heart landfills sites at Epe and Badagry. And those
landfill sites are the real focus for the next rolling plan and a site also will be located in
Ogun state. That is around Mowe/Ibafo area that we took over. Then we will close down the Olusosun dumpsite completely and turn
it into golf course. We will continue to build transfer stations and material recovery plants in Lagos".
"Those are parts of the ten year rolling plan and we will increase our waste conversion to almost 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the
wastes we generate in Lagos. The wastes will now be converted to something very useful within that ten years rolling plan.
Then, we want to make sure that we get the economics of waste management very well
and the economics must be perfect within the next ten year. So those are the key ingredients of those plans.''
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