Debate: ‘Lagos has a waste-pick-and-dump system, not waste management’ — GRV

At Friday’s Lagos governorship debate, organised by the Nigeria Debate Consortium, Labour Party candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Nigeria Democratic Congress candidate Funso Doherty criticised the state’s waste management system. Rhodes-Vivour said it was overly centralised, left local governments with little involvement and focused on collecting and dumping refuse; he pledged to decentralise the system and create value from waste. Doherty called the situation a government failure, citing uneven sanitation across Lagos and too little investment in collection trucks. He also blamed successive governments for withdrawing from social services while expecting private operators to fill the gap.