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Waste Disposal Management In Local Government Administration
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During the civilian administration
between 1979 and 1983 Surulere Local Government was divided into four
local governments councils, namely, Surulere Itire /Tkate. Oshodi/Isolo
and Odi Olowo / Ojuwoye / Onigbogbo.
The council Management System of
Local Government was however short-lived as the military Administration
that came into power in December 1983abolished the proliferated system
and maintains the 1976 status quo. Consequently, the three defunct Local
governments served as area offices to Surulere Local Government for
administration convenience.
The creation of 12 local government in
1989 and, subsequent boundary adjustment saw surulere Local government,
losing some of its area of Ikeja and Mainland Local Government.
The
declaration of August 27 and 29, 1991 by the federal Government saw the
creation of 15 Local Government in Lagos State and once again Surulere
Local Government lost Oshodi/lsolo thereby leaving only Surulere Ilupeju
and Itire areas, with the provisional figures of the 1991 National
census putting the Mushin Local Government population at 986,847 people.
1.7 LIMITATION TO THE STUDY
The
research work on waste disposal management will be restricted to Lagos
Sate and Mushin Local Government in particular. To a large extent, the
records and documents to be used in the writing of the project will be
limited to this defined local government, Surulere Local Government and
Lagos State.
In the same vein, waste management is the realm at which
the writing of this project will revolve so as to point out the
necessary areas in which improvement are necessary to this field of
management.
1.8 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
Some of the terms used in this study are briefly defined as follows:
1.
Planning- it is the process by which we prepare for the future not
compromising the present the and considering the past.
2.
“K.A.I†- Kick Against indiscipline it is agency set up by the Lagos
state Government to curb in discipline and environmental nuisance.
3.
Incineration: it is the process in which waste is reduced to harmless
ashes through the application of heat (burning).
4. Sanitary
land filling: This is the process by which waste dumped at the landfill
sites were covered daily with earth materials (sand) and there are
facilities for odour, litter, vermin and rodent control.
5.
Compositing- it is the process in which the waste is sorted and the
bio-degradable substance in the waste are dried and converted from can
be used as soil conditioned.
6. Recycling: A process by
which some useful materials are sorted from waste and are made to pass
through series of process or treatment to make other similar materials
e.g glass, plastics.
7. Resource Recovery: it is the
regaining or bringing back to normalcondition certain useful materials
from waste e.g returnable bottles,pallets and others.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]A major concern to the government of Lagos state is the problem of solid Waste Management within Lagos metropolis.To ameliorate the situation, the government put in place strategies for effective collection, disposal and management of solid waste to improve the living environment of the people.A new initiative was developed statewide after a pilot scheme was undertake in Surulelre, Kosofe and Shomolu Local Government Areas of the state. The pilot scheme bought to fore the need to regulate privat ... Continue reading---
