Emmanuel Ukudolo l Monday, October 22, 2018
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has reappointed former Managing Director of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority(LAWMA), Dr. Ola Oresanya as Executive Secretary of the agency.
His appointment was announced by the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressive Congress(APC). Dr. Ola Oresanya was reappointed following the decision of the Lagos State House of Assembly to suspend Vision Scape and ordered LAWMA back to the street to restore nomalcy to the streets which have been taken over by wastes.
“Dr Ola Oresanya reappointed as LAWMA Executive Secretary. Congratulations”, the Lagos APC said on social media. Ola Oresanya was forced to resign in July 2015 by the Ambode government after serving LAWMA for 10 years. He was appointed MD of LAWMA in 2005, during the regime of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, as the governor of the state.
“I am not resigning, its only deployment. Though, my deployment would be determine by the state government. I am still in government, I’m only leaving LAWMA to give another person a chance to develop the organisation and contribute his or her quota to the agency in the state.
“Having being the managing director of LAWMA for 10 years, and served the state for 20 years, I thinks I should give another person chance. But I am still in the government”, he said. While ordering LAWMA to the street, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Mudasiru Obasa said:
“We insist that we don’t know anything about Visionscape because we were not consulted before they started work. We once wrote the Commissioner for Finance, Hon. Akinyemi Ashade not to pay Visionscape again and he would return any money he paid to them after our instruction to the coffers of the state government. We will go to that when the time comes but we have to do the needful now.
“We are calling on the 20 local governments and 37 LCDAs in the state to have meetings with the PSP operators to go back to work and they should start paying them and make the residents to start paying the operators. We have to avoid epidemics and be proactive.
“We are inviting the Commissioner for the Environment to come and report to us within one week. The Clerk should write all the local councils in the state to do the needful and the Commissioner for the Environment should work on this and report to us in a week,” he said.
