The Lagos State Government has shut Ogba City Mall in Ikeja and Ajah market in the Etti-Osa area of the state over waste disposal offences.

The closure was carried out by a combined enforcement team of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (LASTMA), and the Lagos Government Special Environmental Corps (KAI).

Ths Director, Public Affairs of LAWMA, Folashade Kadiri, who made this known in a statement on Sunday, said shanties and illegal traders’ structures around Ajah BRT corridor and Ajah Jubilee Bridge were also cleared by the enforcement team.

Kadiri quoted the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, as saying the enforcement was a continuation of the administration’s onslaught on filth and indiscriminate waste disposal by markets and business facilities across the state.

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Wahab said: “We are stepping up action on this administration’s zero tolerance for filth and reckless waste disposal by traders and business facilities.

“We have continuously warned business owners to expect action if they refuse to do the needful to sustain the environment.”

The commissioner stated that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration would not relent in the pursuit of the lofty objective in the overriding public good.

On his part, the Managing Director/CEO of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, said the zero tolerance campaign was a continuous one, advising markets and business stakeholders to take steps to ensure a clean and hygienic premises.

“For the umpteenth time, we are encouraging all business owners and markets to shun filth and put measures in place to guarantee responsible waste disposal in their places of operation,” he said.

Gbadegesin, who stressed that the enforcement action would reach the doorsteps of defaulters, urged them to play by the rules.

The Star