LAGESC Siezes Truckload Of Banned Styrofoam Parks

By Felix Kuyinu 

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC, has impounded a truck loaded with styrofoam packs prohibited in the state.

LAGESC head, Olatunbosun Cole, disclosed that the agency’s officials at Surulere apprehended the truck, a Mercedez-Benz with plate number 814 AJK – 140 LG, at Ojuelegba en-route to Cameroon.

Cole expressed his disgruntlement over the act.  He said that there are individuals who stack up the banned packs in warehouses with intent to sell at reduced prices to unsuspecting buyers from other States.

He said, ‘‘You would recall in January that the State Government via the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources announced the carpet ban on the use and distribution of Styrofoam and other single-use plastics across the State.

“Adequate publicity and stakeholder engagement were deplored to spread the word but some negative elements decided to withhold these inflammable products in their warehouses beyond the deadline.

“There are some Investigations that revealed that one Iya Ireti Plastic Company, situated in the Lagos Island area of the State, sold the Styrofoam packs at a street value of ₦2,090,000.00 to a Cameroonian national with the hopes of moving the truckload of Styrofoam packs through Akwa-Ibom State for sales in the Central African country.

“LAGESC is commitment to get rid of environmental infractions and to deal with all environmental defaulters.

“The distribution and use of Styrofoam remains banned and we remain resolute to flush out environmental defaulters away from Lagos”.