A global credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has affirmed the positive economic ratings of Lagos State despite the missed contracted services payment by Visionscape Sanitation Solutions as a result of halting of the waste management agreement.
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Eighteen former area managers of Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Ltd, Lagos, on Thursday filed a suit against the sanitation company over unlawful termination of employment without payment of their entitlements.
The waste war, which resulted from disagreements over the Cleaner Lagos Initiative, saw PSP operators discontinuing residential waste collection in Lagos State.
The body also disclosed that it had discovered 5,000 black spots across the Lagos metropolis where Lagosians dumped refused illegally.
Irvine was responding to a question posed during an interaction with journalists in the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwanu Akiolu, where he and the top management of Visionscape had gone on a courtesy visit.
Thick black smoke could be seen far from the site, located near the old Lagos Toll Gate
The Chief Executive Officer of VSS, John Irvine, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos
The aggrieved group, in a statement by its Chairman, Oladipo Egbeyemi, had distanced itself from the agreement to work with the State Government to rid the State of filth adorning major streets and highways, describing the resolution as misleading and untrue
Gbajabiamila rather urged Lagosians to join hands with the State Government to ensure the success of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative
A tour of various parts of the State on Friday revealed that evacuation of filth had been carried out and still ongoing in major areas, including Falomo Bridge, Obalende, Ikoyi, Mushin, Ikeja, Ipaja, Agege and Oshodi
Rising from an emergency meeting on the resurgence of refuse on major highways and road medians across the State, the Chairmen expressed optimism in the effectiveness of the new policy to birth a comprehensive and world class waste management system, just as they urged residents to cooperate with government during the transition period.