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Waste sites and spending in Delta State

Delta State appropriated ₦1.28bn to its Waste Management Board across 2022–2024. The 2025 audit found the Asaba facility, designed for 1000 tonnes a day, handling under 100.

Four sites serve all 25 areas. Nothing else in the audit is published area by area.

Oshimili South

1 of the state's four dumpsites is here — Asaba — off Ibusa Road. The audit names the town and the road; which area that is, is our reading of where the town sits. Our calculation

No spending, tonnage or collection figure is yet published for any single area, so there is nothing more to show yet.

4 dumpsites serve all 25 local government areas — one each at Asaba, Agbor, Sapele and Warri. Read from a document
10× below design capacity, per the audit. The Integrated Waste Management Facility on Ibusa Road, Asaba, cost over ₦1bn. It is not listed in the contract register, which covers part of spending. Not yet published

Where the four are, and where they are not

The audit names a site in each of four towns. Everywhere else is served from one of them.

The four areas with a site

Ika SouthAgbor — Abavo Road Oshimili SouthAsaba — off Ibusa Road SapeleSapele — Ibada Amukpe Road Warri SouthWarri — Agbahro

Town and road as the audit gives them; the area is our reading of where each town sits. Our calculation

The 21 with none

  • Aniocha North
  • Aniocha South
  • Bomadi
  • Burutu
  • Ethiope East
  • Ethiope West
  • Ika North East
  • Isoko North
  • Isoko South
  • Ndokwa East
  • Ndokwa West
  • Okpe
  • Oshimili North
  • Patani
  • Udu
  • Ughelli North
  • Ughelli South
  • Ukwuani
  • Uvwie
  • Warri North
  • Warri South West

No site of their own. Whether and by whom waste is collected in them is not yet published. Not yet published

What was appropriated

Total appropriated, 2022 to 2024

20222024

Overhead, the same three years

20222024

Overhead is what a body spends to run itself. It fell from ₦205.6m to ₦12.4m in one year while capital spending rose. The audit does not give a reason for the change. It is shown because it is the largest movement in the table. Read from a document

YearCapitalPersonnel OverheadTotal
2022₦200.0m ₦116.8m ₦205.6m ₦522.4m
2023₦250.0m ₦118.5m ₦12.4m ₦380.9m
2024₦200.0m ₦159.3m ₦22.3m ₦381.6m

Read from the Auditor-General's performance audit on solid waste, September 2025. The budget table is published only because its components sum to the totals the report prints, for every year and for the three-year total. Read from a document

What the Auditor-General found

Quoted from the audit, with page numbers.

The facility is severely underperforming, with an actual processing capacity of less than 100 tonnes per day. This underutilization demonstrates that the facility is not delivering its intended objectives, resulting in wasted expenditure and continued reliance on dumpsites for waste disposal.

Delta State Auditor-General Quoted verbatim from page 35 of the Auditor-General's report.

The Ministry of Environment and the Delta State Waste Management Board, though empowered under the State Environmental Policy and the DSWMB Law to regulate, monitor, and enforce compliance with waste management standards, have not fully discharged this mandate.

Delta State Auditor-General Quoted verbatim from page 39 of the Auditor-General's report.
About the capacity figures The capacity figures are the auditor's. The audit says 'less than 100 tonnes per day'; we use 100.

Not yet published

  • Collection tonnage is not yet published for anywhere in Delta State, for any period.
  • A register of licensed private waste collectors, and what they are paid, is not yet published.

Tonnage is not yet published, so the ₦1.28bn cannot yet be compared with output. Not yet published

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