The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has terminated the contracts of several street sweepers, their immediate supervisors, and the private service provider overseeing their operations following confirmed involvement in indiscriminate waste dumping along the Oworonshoki-Berger expressway axis.
​The decisive action was officially announced on Saturday, September 5, 2026, by LAWMA Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, through an official statement signed by Mukaila Sanusi, PhD, Director of Public Affairs.
​According to the Authority, the disengagement followed weeks of sustained surveillance and targeted investigations along the highway median, which had repeatedly been identified as a persistent illegal waste blackspot.
Investigators established that personnel assigned to clean the corridor were themselves dumping collected waste directly onto the highway medians. LAWMA confirmed that several of the affected sweepers confessed to the act during questioning.
​Speaking on the enforcement action, Dr. Gbadegesin emphasized that the agency maintains a zero-tolerance policy for environmental infractions, especially among those hired to enforce sanitation.
​”Our responsibility is to keep Lagos clean, and everyone involved in that responsibility must play their part,” Gbadegesin stated. “Where our investigations establish that anyone is contributing to the problem, appropriate action will be taken. There will be no exceptions.”
​In a related enforcement operation along the same corridor, LAWMA officers apprehended two illegal waste dumpers. One suspect, identified as Timileyin Ojo, a male load carrier, was caught using a wheelbarrow to dump refuse on the road median. The second suspect, an unauthorized cart pusher, was arrested for illegal waste collection activities in the area.
​Both suspects were transferred to the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force) Mobile Court in Oshodi for investigation and prosecution under state environmental laws.
​LAWMA advised residents, business owners, and waste collectors to patronize only assigned Private Sector Participants (PSPs) and warned that surveillance along major transit corridors will be intensified.
