Activists Challenge Lagos: Where Will Residents Dump Waste as Sanitation Returns?

A human rights activist has questioned the Lagos government’s plan to bring back the monthly sanitation exercise, asking if it ever made the city noticeably cleaner or if any adverse effects were noted when it stopped. He argues that systemic failures—like the disappearance of public bins in markets, bus stops and busy areas—force people to dump refuse on walkways. Where containers still exist, they often overflow because collection services are unreliable. The activist says fines alone won’t solve the problem and warns that running both the new exercise and the existing Thursday market cleaning could disrupt businesses. He proposes hiring 50,000 sanitation officers to enforce rules, issue tickets and fund ongoing waste services.

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