POLITICAL WILL AND POLICY OVERVIEW – THE CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Collecting and managing Solid Waste generated by the households, markets, industries and the communities are sometimes not as tasking as the process involved, which essentially include the political will on the part of the government, the need for advancement in the know-how and the effective policy implementations. The experience of the years of political interference, and policy implementation default in the management of solid waste in Oyo State, Nigeria is a phenomenon. The implication of poor solid waste management often results in the loss of life, sometimes, through associated flooding, diseases, property loss and distortion of government projects or policy mandate. Solid-waste management problems stem from the government inability to enforce appropriate law, regimes interference, lack of vision to develop a modern and an advance approach that could engender a sustainable policy that would make solid waste, more of an investment and business endeavour. The objective is to show and reviews the current trend and, identify some policies undermining solid waste management in Oyo State, Nigeria. Articles, journals, data and environmental reports from previous publications were used for these study.