The Managing Director of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, Mr. Ola Oresanya, said that work had started at the Ojota waste dump to generate electricity from the site.


He said that LAWMA, in its recycling effort, had started converting ‘pure water’ sachets into plastic bags.


He, therefore, urged Lagosians not to throw away the sachets of the ‘pure water’ they drink, but bring them to the recycling plant to earn some money.


Oresanya told SATURDAY PUNCH on Friday that LAWMA engineers had started digging the dump site for methane, which had accumulated over a period of 19 years and would be converted to electricity. He said the authority embarked on the job, having waited endlessly for foreign bodies to collaborate with it on the project.


He said LAWMA was ready to make mistakes and learn from them in the course of the project.


He said, “If you even look at the history of that dump site, it started operation on November 19, 1992. That is a long time and we have been dumping refuse there since then.


“We have dumped more than 25 million tonnes of waste. When we first started, we were not really compressing the refuse; so, the refuse had enough spaces that would allow oxygen to combust and that was why it was always in flame.


“Right now, we are compressing the waste and there is no more void space, taking it from density of about 0.35 to almost 0.9. So, we’ve been successfully trapping the methane in that site.


“The methane gets released during the rainy season and the area is filled with obnoxious odour. But right now, the methane and other gasses have been recovered; we have started drilling for gas, which we are going to use to fire electricity generating equipment to be installed this year.”


Oresanya said LAWMA was not collaborating with any foreign partner, describing the project as simple science, which Nigerian engineers were capable of actualising.


He said, “We have our engineers; we know what we want to do. The science for it is not rocket science; it is a very simple science. We have geologists; we have civil engineers, electrical engineers.


“We know the kind of equipment we are to buy and we know the kind of drilling we are doing. So, we are doing it basically in-house. Yes, we can ask for one or two professional ideas. We are ready to make our mistakes and learn from them.


“Before now, we were waiting for international bodies to collaborate with us, but we found out that we would wait endlessly because these people are not interested in our progress and we better do it ourselves, make our mistakes and learn from them and make progress.”


Oresanya asked Lagosians to earn income by exchanging their sachets of ‘pure water’ for money instead of throwing them away.


“We are converting ‘pure water’ sachets into bags and we are buying at N30 per kilogramme. It is right there in Olusosun; take a kilogramme of sachets of pure water there and get N30 on the spot. Seeing is believing. Let the world know that in Lagos, when you drink ‘pure water’ and throw away the sachet, you are throwing away money.


“All you need to do is to get in there to the dump site, which used to be a nuisance. The direction to our recycling plant is there and people are being paid,” he said.


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201102123305756

This is the type of government we want not the one that want to build floating cities with billions of Naira in impoverished areas where people can not before three square meals.

Let's hope non-rascally neighbors along with their party leaders can learn a thing or two from their rascally colleagues.

Good one here, hopefully it's going to work just like most of the things working in Lagos.

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Yeah right!

I think it is better to have rascals in government than to have munmun their o. Kudos Fashola!

Personally , I remain pessimistic about States or Private entities generating electricity while , in respect to legislative provisions, transmission and distribution issues remain vague.

Nice move by ACN

Seems like some kind of publicity hype to me. Get the damn thing working first before making noise about it.

[size=38pt]VIVA LE RASCALS [/size]

oyb:

[size=38pt]VIVA LE RASCALS [/size]

lol. VIVE LES REVEURS

@excanny, you know Nada!! Its already on track slowpoke,

This is OLD NEWS . . . from at least a year ago, I believe! I believe we read about the same right after the WELCOME TO LAGOS series aired.

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You are getting old, so everything looks old to you!


IF you check the date. you'd realize it is as current as a new born baby!

ROFLMFAO!!!^^^ Abeg no kill Kobo o,

Dunno why some of ya'll are being pessimistic here.

Done elsewhere in the world, too:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-09-fla-county-trash_x.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?_r=1

And we've seen that projects Lagos executes tend to be executed well.

At some point, this might become a thriving business through Nigeria.

Is it so hard for kobo to see any good thing ?

Kobojunkie:

This is OLD NEWS . . . from at least a year ago, I believe! I believe we read about the same right after the WELCOME TO LAGOS series aired.

I think the previous news was waste being converted to compost, _{but im also sure i read about this long ago} probably the reason why he said "the authority embarked on the job, having waited endlessly for foreign bodies to collaborate with it on the project."

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-244545.0.html

Well now they have given us a sort of time scale

Oh!!! I forgot to post it when I found it . . . . it was to generate electricity back in January of Last year.  I guess maybe they finally started or are still telling us they still intend to do just that.

What time scale are you referring to ?

[size=13pt]Why Olusosun Waste To Power Project Failed Oresanya[/size]

http://www.nigeriamusicmovement.com/index.php/africa-energy-nigeria-electricity-lightupnigeria-why-olusosun-waste-to-power-project-failed-oresanya

By Mansur Oladunjoye, January – 18 – 2010

Managing Director, Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Dr. Ola Oresanya has disclosed that the Olusosun Waste to Power project billed to take off last year failed because the contractor handling it could not deliver the needed equipment.

Addressing a joint press conference with Commissioners for Information and Strategy, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele and that of the Health, Dr. Jide Idris and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, Oresanya stated that the contractor was affected by the global economic crisis.

He said LAWMA was tidying up refuse collection in all parts of the state, and that the project is still on course, just as he reemphasised the agency’s readiness to generate gas from the waste to power electricity for Nigerians.

Oresanya however, assured that the state will come out with something laudable on the project before the end of this year.
On denial of medical attention for LAWMA officials hit by vehicles, Idris explained that the development has brought to the fore the need to remind all public servants in the state that they were entitled to free health services in all public hospitals, stating that the services were available 24 hours daily.

The medical directors will be held responsible in any public hospitals where the state public servants are denied access to free medical services. Both LAWMA and LASTMA officers are public servants of Lagos State and entitled to the free medical services. Rejection of public servants in the state hospitals will no longer be entertained because there is a special provision for them,” he said.

He also said victims of accidents brought to the hospitals were entitled to free treatment in the first 24 hours.
On clashes between LAWMA and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Opeifa directed that henceforth all faulty LAWMA trucks found on the roads should be towed without any fee to the closest LAWMA office, adding that such vehicles must be properly documented by the senior officer on duty.

Oh ok . . . I missed that . Thanks!!!

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Old age?