The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has blamed the continual rise in inflation rates for his administration's inability to successfully ameliorate the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy and the Naira to Dollar exchange rate.
In this report, IFEDAYO OGUNYEMI examines the commercial and human activities, including refuse dumping, plastic waste recycling, etc. that continue to
Share On January 1, 2012, Sunday Tribune featured an article entitled ‘Awotan (Apete): Agony of a dumpsite neighbourhood’. It was a narrative of the pains and agonising experience of people living around the popular Awotan dumpsite in Ibadan, Oyo State. The author of that piece, which was cited in some environment-related publications including the Waste Atlas 2014, was at the time a rookie Tribune reporter by the name of Moses Alao. Nine years after the succinct narration of the agonising lifestyle of Awotan residents was exposed to the world through the instrumentality of the pen of this writer, I am returning with a different story of how the agony of Awotan residents has turned to a beautiful testimony. The other difference is that I am writing this time, not as a rookie Tribune reporter but as a Special Assistant (Print Media) to the Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, the man through whose hands the story of Awotan, Ibadan, has been rewritten.