KWEPA laments poor environmental attitude
…..calls it a setback to environmental sanity
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency, (KWEPA) has decried the poor attitude of some unscrupulous people to compliance with the state’s environmental laws, noting that their complacency has posed a great threat to environmental sanity in the state.
KWEPA’s General Manager, Alhaji Sa’ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, who disclosed this during a Radio programme on Royal F.M in Ilorin, the state capital, commended Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration for the procurement and placement of bigger rorobins in strategic places within the state capital, and other means of controlling and managing social waste alongside the Agency’s engagement of commercial waste contractors to man the enlightened areas and government’s regulated premises.
Dan-Musa expressed disappointment at the alarming rate at which indiscriminate dumping persists in the state, saying that seeing such ill act at this time is seriously uncalled for despite the agency’s unceasing efforts in curbing environmental menace in every part of the state.
Dan-Musa enumerated some of the efforts and models the agency has devised in curbing environmental nuisance in the state to include, regular routine inspection and sensitisation programmes both on the field and the Radio, house-to-house inspections to caution the public on open defecation and the need to have good toilet facilities, among others.
Ayuba, however, assured the public that the Agency under his watch would not relent efforts in ensuring that its statutory mandate of making the state clean and green to live for its citizenry is not jeopardised, while urging the people to have a positive change of attitude and ensure strict compliance to environmental laws to avoid sanctions.
Speaking on pest control, the HOD Pest Control Unit of the Agency, Mr Rufus Adebayo, disclosed that the service of pest control covers a wide range which should be extended to both social and regulated premises in the state.
Adebayo advised all the regulated premises, like schools, food outlets and the likes to embrace the culture of fumigation, even after the accumulated wastes in the rorobins and debris in the public medians are evacuated to forestall any disease or health havoc.