The Chairman, Oyo State Waste Management Authority, Mr Morounfolu Adelore, has said Ibadan, the state capital, is no more the dirtiest city in Africa.
Adelore, who said this on Tuesday, stated that the city had achieved 60 per cent compliance with waste management law.
According to him, the present administration in the state set out to change the city from being ‘the dirtiest in Africa’ and through advocacy and enforcement, it achieved some of its aims.
He siad, “I will today tell you that Ibadan has achieved 60 per cent adherence to regulations guiding waste disposal and management.
“If you go to areas where things used to be bad, we have changed the attitude of the people; it is progressing, people are complying daily. The system arrests offenders and fines them, this is a subtle enforcement.
“There was a time in the history of Oyo State that a former governor was given kudos for maintaining cleanliness in his first term and everything changed during the second term because the responsibility of this waste management agency was ceded to a consultant, the GM and directors were transferred back to their various ministries.
“Oyo State people are very simple and dynamic; it is a pace setter state, advocacy work will not stop, every nook and cranny will get the message and key into the clean and green architecture of OYOWMA.
“We are taking inventories of all our zonal offices; we just resumed serious works not long ago; those zonal offices of OYOWMA became moribund long ago; there were assets of the waste authority in those five zonal offices in Oke-Ogun 1 (Saki), Oke-Ogun 2 (Iseyin), Eruwa, Ogbomoso and Oyo, we are revamping them.”
