The causes are as follow:
1. Population
effects on waste management: Nigeria
urbanization trend has also been spectacular, to say least. For instance in
1921 there was not city in Nigeria with a population of over 1,000,000, while
only 10 towns had population of 20,000 and above each.
In 1931,24 towns has urban
population status (in Nigeria, town with a population of 20,000 and above are
regarded as urban) with two having up to 100,000 and above population. By 1984
estimates showed that there were 356 towns with population or 1000,000, 14 with
500,000 and above respectively.
Conclusively, between 1984 and year 2004 (a
spare or 20 years) the population of has increased by people. This explosion in
population growth has negatively impacted on the management of domestic
polythene waste in the state population growth goes hand in with increased
pollution and environment decay.
2. Attitude to work: Alamieyesigha (2004) in his book titled “managing
employee productivity in Nigeria. a strategic approach noted that employee productivity
of the Nigeria worker is too low, when compared with available human and
natural resources. He attributed this incidence of low productivity to certain
factors including sociological factors, which is fact in the manifested lack of
sense of belonging in an organization and tendency by employees to perceive a
“job” as another business. Confirming the slogan” “it is everybody’s job”. The
negative to work has natively impacted on the waste management effort in
Abakaliki.
3. Inadequate
vehicle, plants and equipments and necessary tool: It should be noted that waste disposal or deposited at
designated points of collection has to be transported either to the transfer
loading station where so try done or to the landfill or final disposal point.
Therefore, for effective collection
system, there must be enough and well maintained equipment such as trucks,
tippers, pay loaders, bulldozers, enough road sweeper, compactors and others. In Ebonyi state for example
municipal solid waste transportation, collection and disposal has been epileptic,
since the stat realized its responsibility to the environment. A lot of problem
such as inadequate number of vehicles, lack of spare, death of fund, poor
technical known how, poor maintenance culture, insufficient funding and lack of
motivation has bedeviled the various agencies responsible for effective and
safe waste management in Abakaliki.
4. Corruption:
Corruption is a canker worn that has
eaten deep into every fabric of the Nigeria society. This we may not denied
except to our collective demises and peril. The collage in most of the various
agencies in waste management infrastructure in Abakaliki may be traced to this
menace.