FRAUD running into hundreds of millions of naira has been reportedly uncovered in the Lagos State Waste Management Authority.
It was gathered that the beneficiaries were some contractors, who engaged street sweepers for the cleaning of Lagos roads.
“The running cost of LAWMA rose from about N540m to N1bn and the governor, who wanted to save money, asked the former MD to step aside for an audit.LAWMA has 652 operators with 15,498 workers, including sweepers and supervisors working for them. Our correspondent was told that a sweeper gets N25,000 per month as salary, while a supervisor is paid N40,000 per month.
“The auditors discovered that most of the names submitted by the woman to collect money were non-existent, while a number of the routes were unkempt. Our correspondent gathered that several other operators were also caught in the fraud, as they inflated their figures. Some street sweepers were reported to have gone to the State House, Marina, lamenting that they were hungry.
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