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

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.