A nongovernmental organisation, Global Alliance For Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) Nigeria branch, in conjunction with Civil Society Organisations Tuesday advised Lagos state government against plans to use incinerator to generate power.
Speaking in Lagos against the danger of incinerator, 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 (MoU) 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 stated that because of the danger incinerator posed to the masses that is why they advocate a shift from it to zero management of waste.