Kwara Govt Inaugurates Surveillance Taskforce on Cleaner Kwara

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R-L: Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Dansuki, Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Sanitation, Alhaji Yakub Agodi, Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Environmental Protection, Muazu Muhammad, State Commissioner for Environment, Hajia Nafisat Musa Buge, Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Ayinla Abubakar, Director Personnel Finance and Supply, Taiwo Okanlawon, Director Environment, Mrs Mary Mustapha and others during the Inauguration of the Environmental Taskforce at the Ministry's Headquarters, Ilorin, today.



*...lists new strategies for enforcement*

In its bid to sustain a clean and healthy environment, the Kwara State government has inaugurated a 300-man surveillance taskforce to check indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the Ilorin metropolis.

The State Commissioner for Environment, Hajia Nafisat Musa Buge disclosed this during the official inauguration of the environmental taskforce held at the Ministry's Conference hall, today. 

In her words, "indiscriminate dumping of refuse is a general phenomenon that requires urgent attention, most especially in Ilorin metropolis. The only solution to eradicate it is to aggressively commence a rethinking of sustainable waste management by the government and sensitize the people on the dangers inherent in dumping refuse indiscriminately." 

She emphasized that members of the public must cooperate with the government and its agencies to find a lasting solution to the problem to forestall the outbreak of diseases, especially cholera, which is already ravaging some states in the country.

Among the new strategies listed to be employed by the Ministry to permanently eradicate indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the State are: 

* It is illegal to dump refuse on road medians, road dividers, roundabouts, gutters, drainage channels, and waterways.

* Anybody caught displaying wares/goods beyond the gutter on the roadside for trading activities will be penalized. 

* The Ministry will with immediate effect remove the bigger roll-roll (waste) bins from the road sides or roundabouts and take them to secure places where vehicular movements will not be impeded. 

* Waste bins have been placed at different collection points for onward evacuation to the final dump site. 

* We have also put in place well organized consultants to evacuate refuse from the collection points within 24 hours. 

* Scavenging is no longer allowed in the metropolis. All previously registered scavengers are advised to do their business at the government dump site at Sokoto-Aiyekale off the Express way.

* We have engaged 38 Commercial Waste Consultants and allocated them to different communities to collect refuse with the payment of a monthly token. Otherwise, refuse should be dumped inside the government mobile collection vans/vehicles whenever it comes to your community.

* The Ministry will provide medium sized waste collection bins for shop owners and households for proper disposal of refuse.

* We would not relent in community engagement and media sensitization to correct unacceptable practices and disseminate regular information on the new strategies.

Buge who disclosed that the surveillance taskforce will embark on 24-hours surveillance duty, warned that convicted offenders will be made to face the full wrath of the relevant environmental laws.

While administering oath of allegiance on members of the taskforce, Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Dansuki stressed the need for the taskforce committee to adhere strictly to the environmental laws in order to avoid litigations. 

The programme was well attended by Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Dansuki, Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Sanitation, Alhaji Yakub Agodi, Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Environmental Protection, Muazu Muhammad, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Ayinla Abubakar, Director Personnel, Finance and Supply, Taiwo Okanlawon, Director Environment, Mrs Mary Mustapha, representative of Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union(IDPU), Alhaji Nurudeen Ibrahim, among others.



Kamaldeen Aliagan,
Press Secretary,
MEnv

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