There's nothing to defend there. I don't defend rubbish either.
But acting like you don't have your own waste problems is funny.
Of any state in Nigeria, Lagos is at the highest risk of a waste crisis due to its ever-increasing population and very small land size. At the same time, they need to build no less than 3 TLS every year, alongside a thousand other things across all sectors.
It's not cheap.
So it's either they live on loans or find a way to shoot up their IGR to no less than $100 billion per annum, as opposed to the mere $1.2 billion they currently generate, if they are to fully meet the needs of over 24 million people.
That doesn't excuse poor waste management. It just shows the scale of the challenge Lagos is dealing with.