New Year: PSP operator threatens to sue defaulters
By Edith Igbokwe
The management of Excellens Waste Management Service, one of the Private Sector Participants (PSP) operating in Oshodi has threatened to involve the court in retrieving its money from the customers who are defaulting in the payments of their waste bills.
The company had earlier suspended services in 12 areas of Oshodi which include Alasia Compound at Agege Motor Road, Alhaji Sheu Close, Yinusa Close, Oseni Ewu Street, Sule Close, Ayeni Village, Ayeni Street, Kale Court, Peluola Street, Yemoja Street, Apakun lane, and Bass Street due to the non-payment of the bills.
However, the management said it decided to resume the services in December, 2020 to be fair with the less than 10 percent of customers who paid up their bills till January, 2021 as it concluded to take the matter to customary court.
While waiting for the court decision on the matter, the CEO of the company, Mr. David Oriyomi, told ECHONEWS that the company has decided to embark on selective services as a strategy to serve the few customers who have been paying while ignoring the defaulters.
His words: “My challenge is that once the refuse vehicle enters a particular street, all the residents will rush and bring out their refuse to litter the street especially ‘Agboile’ areas but I am trying to avoid that mess up.
“I have made effort to involve the Community Development Association (CDA) chairmen to speak to their community members to pay up their waste bills to make our services efficient and to avoid cutting them off from receiving our services which they can’t get elsewhere.
“I bought six new trucks through bank loans from Polaris and Sterling bank to improve the efficiency of my services to the community but after servicing them, it is debt that I get in return. It is unfair! How do I cope with the refund to the bank that has the confidence to invest money in our sector despite that the economy is in shambles, struggling to survive? It should be in our interest to make haste and pay back the loan after the bank has reduced the equity cooperation for us and given us three years period of refund.”
He concluded that the company will go to court to retrieve its money as soon as the court resumes in January unless the debtors pay 80 percent of what they are owing before he can start collecting their refuse.
