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The Ogun State Government, through its Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, has begun a “Special Operation” to evacuate the backlog of waste across the state following a report by DAILY POST.
The report, published on Thursday, February 26, highlighted the alarming state of waste management in the state, with indiscriminate dumping turning it into a corridor of decay.
Heaps of waste were seen scattered across various local government areas, starkly displayed like goods for sale.
It was also gathered that the Private Sector Participants (PSP), who handle waste collection for residential and commercial areas, have been inconsistent.
However, the newly appointed Managing Director of OGWAMA, Farouk Akintunde, on Saturday said the “Special Operation” became necessary to rid the state of accumulated waste that had not been properly attended to before he took over the affairs of the authority.
He added that the “night operation,” which was halted months ago, has been reinstated to tackle the state’s waste crisis and restore cleanliness.
Akintunde said, “All the machinery of the authority has now been deployed to different parts of the state, and the operation is going on simultaneously, especially in major towns such as Abeokuta, Sango-Ota, Ijebu-Ode, Ifo, among others, while the ‘Night Operation,’ which had also been suspended several months back, has returned immediately in full swing.
“Following a fruitful meeting with executives and members of the Ogun State Association of Waste Managers Association (AWAN), where some lingering issues hampering their operations in the past were resolved, members have also resumed immediately in their assigned coverage areas to contribute significantly to the proper evacuation of the accumulated waste across the state.”
Akintunde, who also doubles as Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Environment, urged residents to hand over their waste to the waste managers assigned to their areas and properly containerise it in front of their homes instead of dumping it indiscriminately on roadsides.
Meanwhile, he warned that anyone found dumping waste on road medians would be prosecuted.
After DAILY POST report, Ogun begins ‘special operation’ to evacuate waste
Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, ABIRS, explained that the alleged failure of Globacom Limited to comply with tax remittance obligations as ordered by the High Court of Abia State led to the sealing of the company’s offices in Umuahia and Aba.
The action was disclosed in a press release signed by the Deputy Director of Information, Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, Emelle Akunna Loveth.
She stated that the enforcement followed a valid court order issued in Suit No. HU/225M/2025 between the Abia State Internal Revenue Service and Globacom Limited.
According to the statement, the High Court of Abia State, Umuahia Judicial Division, in its judgment delivered on January 14, 2026, directed Globacom Limited to remit the sum of N4,048,748,880.00, representing unremitted Right of Way Withholding Taxes and other tax liabilities covering the period between 2010 and 2022.
The court further ordered the telecommunications firm to pay an additional ten percent annual interest on the outstanding tax liabilities from the date the taxes became due until full payment is made.
The court also granted an order of distraint against Globacom’s goods, chattels, and premises within Abia State, empowering the revenue board and its agents to enforce recovery in line with the provisions of the Abia State Tax (Codification and Consolidation) Law, 2020.
ABIRS explained that the sealing of Globacom offices in Umuahia and Aba was a lawful enforcement action carried out in strict compliance with the subsisting court order.
Meanwhile, some customers of the telecommunications giant have called for an amicable resolution of the tax matter between the Abia State revenue agency and Globacom.
Former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Bugaje, has said that the Senate only succeeded in creating ambiguity in the the passage of the Electoral Amendment Act.
This was as he said that the red chamber of the National Assembly never wanted the real-time electronic transmission of election results.
Bugaje made this statement during an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television.
He was reacting to the Electoral Amendment Act passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Bola Tinubu.
DAILY POST reports that Tinubu signed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 into law barely 24 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly.
Airing his own opinion, the Islamic Scholar, Political Activist and Civil Society Leader, “What we saw and what everybody knew was that the Senate was insisting that there should not be that mandatory electronic transmission of results in real time.
“When the pressure was much, they now caved in by producing or creating ambiguity.”
Electoral Act: Senate only created ambiguity – Former lawmaker, Bugaje
