Sanwo-Olu Advised Against Using Incinerator For Power Generation

A non-governmental organisation, Global Alliance For Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) Nigeria branch in conjunction with some civil society organisations has advised Lagos State government against her plan to use an incinerator to generate power .

Speaking in Lagos against the danger of incinerator, the spokesperson for GAIA in Nigeria Weyinmi Okotie said the state government ought to have sought the view of those vast in the usage of incinerator and the implication of using it before signing Memorandum of understanding with the company that will supply the incinerator.

Okotie who briefed the press along with experts on environmental pollution, Dr. Leslie Adogame of Spader Nigeria, Benson Fasanya of Ofen, and Anthony Akpan of Pave, noted that they decided to brief the public of the environmental hazard incinerator posed to the public and  ineffectiveness of it in  supplying electricity.

Okotie said because of the danger the incinerator posed to the masses that is why they advocate a shift from it to zero management of waste.

He maintained that most developed countries are done away with incineration adding that it is a facility phased out that is being sold to Nigeria, more so, the move negates the climate change move that Lagos State is championing.

It would be recalled that  Sanwo-Olu had in May this year formalised a partnership with a Dutch firm, Harvest Waste Consortium, for the construction of a high efficiency Waste-to-Energy plant on Epe landfill, which will utilise advanced technology to generate clean energy from municipal solid waste, commercial and industrial waste.