- Safiu Kehinde
Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has, yesterday, seized a truckload of banned Two Million Naira worth of Styrofoam.
This was made known in a statement signed by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, Ajayi Lukman.
According to the statement, the Surulere Division of the Agency apprehended a truckload (Mercedes-Benz 814) of banned Styrofoam packs in transit with registration number AJK-140LG in the Ojuelegba area of the State.
While expressing his over the discovery, LAGESC’s Corps Marshall, Olaniyi Olatunbosun, reinstated the state’s ban of the product in January.
‘‘You would recall in January that the State Government via the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources announced the carpet ban on the use and distribution of Styrofoam and other single-use plastics across the State in which adequate publicity and stakeholder engagement was implored to spread the word but some negative elements decided to withhold these inflammable products in their warehouses beyond the deadline’’.
Following the agency’s investigation, it was disclosed that the two million Naira worth product was sold to a Cameroonian nationale by one Iya Ireti Plastic Company.
It was on transit to Akwa-Ibom, where it will further be taken to the Cameroon, before being apprehended by the agency.