PSP operators are cleaning Lagos at their own expense – LASG

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The Lagos State government on Wednesday told a Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafa Balewa Square TBS, that the private waste operators of domestic and commercial wastes in the state who are also known as Private Sector Participants, (PSP) operators, that their continued operation in the state is at their own expense
The counsel to the state government Olubukola Adesina said that “The fact that the waste managers are cleaning the state does not mean they have been employed as they are doing so at their own will,”

Adsina said that the reason the operators brought the matter to court was to force the contract on the Lagos state government.
“You can’t foist a willing party on to a principal.”
She further stated that the operators have not been doing their job very well and diligently. However Adegboruwa objected to the submission of the counsel to Lagos state and urged the court to dismiss the submission and hold that the first to third defendants cannot approbate and reprobate at the same time by denying the existence of a contract and at the same time claiming that the operators were not diligent in the contract.
Earlier the counsel to the claimants Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, had informed the court that the state had rebuffed the court’s intervention for a resolution between both parties.
“The first to third defendants have indicated their unwillingness to settle,” he said.

He informed the court of the claimant’s application for interlocutory injunction dated 17 February 2017, restraining the first to third defendants, their servants, officers, agents, privies, representative or otherwise from terminating, cancelling, annulling, jeopardizing, discriminating against or in any order manner determining the operations of the cliamnts as domestic solid waste collectors in Lagos state pending the hearing and final determination of the suit.
Adegboruwa said that despite the Lagos government’s refusal to settle with the PSP operators, in order to keep Lagos clean the claimants have continued to heed to the court’s advice to continue to clean even when they are not paid. He urged the court to preserve the livelihood of the claimants especially in the light of order 38 of the rule of the court.
After listening to the submission of counsel of both parties, Justice Oyekan Abdullahi adjourned the matter till June 22 for ruling. The claimants had dragged the Lagos state government to court to stop the government from displacing them or replacing them with new operators through the guise of reform.
In a suit filed on their behalf at a Lagos High Court by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the PSP operators, urged the court to urgently uphold and protect their existing rights and benefits so that the government will not appoint new operators to replace them.
The defendants in the suit are the Lagos State Government, the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Commissioner for the Environment, the proposed foreign operators and their local agents–namely Visionscape Group, Visionscape Santiation Solutions Limited, and ABC Sanitation Solutions Limited.
“If the government’s resolutions are implemented to the letter, the regime of refuse heaps may soon return to the state,” Adegboruwa, a human rights lawyer said.
In their 83 paragraph affidavit deposed to by Olabode Coker, the Chairman of the Association of Waste Managers, the operators stated that they had helped Lagos State to rid the state of refuse spanning several years of investments in human and material resources, which had also involved professional trainings and education.
The association, comprising over 350 PSP operators, asked the court to restrain any foreign operator, and their local agents, from taking over the collection, disposal and management of domestic solid waste in all areas of Lagos State

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