Lagos Visionscape waste contract (Nigeria) and Zoomlion/Jospong (Ghana)
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
A ten-year waste-management contract in Lagos State, Nigeria, was reported to have collapsed within about three years, and a Ghanaian investigation examined payments to the waste companies Jospong Group and Zoomlion. The figures in the sources reviewed are not independently verified.
The figure comes from rival private collectors and is listed under unknowns.
Status As of December 2025: a Ghanaian investigative report on payments to Jospong Group was published; no ruling or official response was found in the sources reviewed.
What happened
This record covers two waste-management arrangements in West Africa. In Nigeria, Lagos State entered a waste-management contract with Visionscape; a January 2019 article by Guardian Nigeria, republished by Songhai Advisory, was headlined as saying the contract had fallen victim to political rifts in Lagos State.
In Ghana, the waste companies Zoomlion and Jospong Group were paid for sanitation work; a December 2025 report by The Fourth Estate with Citi Newsroom examined how much Jospong Group had been paid to clean up the country.
- 2017Period in which the Lagos State contract with Visionscape was reported to have run (2017–2019)
- 2019Guardian Nigeria article, via Songhai Advisory, on the contract and political rifts (January)
- 2025The Fourth Estate and Citi Newsroom publish a report on payments to Jospong Group (December)
In court and with insurers
Lawsuits and rulings
Insurers
What we don't know
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: No independent ecological evaluation is on record.
Court
- None on record No court case on record.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not independently verified: the ten-year Visionscape contract in Lagos collapsed in about three years (2017-2019).
- Insufficient Reported but not independently verified: an allegation, made by rival private waste collectors, that Visionscape was paid 700 million naira a month.
- Insufficient Reported but not independently verified: The Fourth Estate and Citi Newsroom (December 2025) reported that Jospong Group received 505 million cedi from the sanitation levy in 2024 and alleged that it did not pay sanitation guards.
- Insufficient Reported but not independently verified: the Ghanaian government was reported to owe Zoomlion 1.2 billion cedi.
- None on record Responses from Visionscape, Lagos State, Jospong Group, Zoomlion and the Ghanaian government to these reports are not on record in the sources reviewed.
- None on record No source reviewed gives any environmental measure, such as waste collected or dumped, for either arrangement.
Did the harm stop?
The sources reviewed do not say whether waste collection in Lagos or Ghana changed as a result of these events.
Who paid?
The sources reviewed do not establish who bore the cost.
Sources
Press and investigations
- How Jospong Group was paid GHC1.48 billion to clean up the country yet Ghana remains in filth and dirt (title as in the URL)The Fourth Estate / Citi Newsroom · 2025-12
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- Lagos State Government (Government) — here: Contracting authority, Lagos; there: Authority that announced and carried out waterfront demolitions