 Welcome back. The Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LOMA, is set to increase charges for waste collection by 50% from the 4th of October. LOMA's managing director Ibrahim O'Doomboni disclosed this during the media polly on the January 2 date. Plus TV news correspondent Love Ikugoyodoku has more in this report. According to the National Population Commission's report of 2016, Lagos is a city with a population of over 2 million people. Handling all managing waste of such a population is sure Narati Party. According to statistics presented by the MD of Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LOMA, Ibrahim O'Doomboni, residents generate a minimum of 0.65 kg, averaging 13,000 metric tons, requiring not less than 650 heavy duty trucks to evacuate. The LOMA boss is confident that the agency is equal to the task. He speaks about recent challenges, solutions as well as sustainability measures that had been put in place. Before the end of this year, additional three will start. The aim and the plan for LOMA over the next five years is to ensure that every LGA has a transfer loading station. So that won't happen to us in the last five weeks or so. We can mitigate against it. Where our PSP will be able to come in their local government area and then we as an organization, as in an agency, will find a way to evacuate to the final destination at the end of the day. O'Doomboni discloses that in the last one year, over 5,000 people have been prosecuted, jailed and some fined in Lagos for indiscriminate waste offenses. Over the last three months, we have actually seized over 1,400 cats across the states and we continue to do that to ensure that a much more formal, agreeable, consistent system of waste is introduced to our society. Don't be no waste on the median of the road. When you see a heap of refuse on the median of the road, majority of them are done by catfishers. He appeals to Lagos residents to patronize PSP operators instead of the illegal catfishers who dumb refuse indiscriminately on the roads. From Lagos, Love Ikuku Uiedukum, Plus TV News.