ALUS insight

The success of Environmental cleaniness lies on local government TIC. KWEPA has identified the causes of challenges facing environmental issues in Kwara state, it is simply lack of synergy by the TIC members in each local government to collaborate with the state Ministry of Environment and KWEPA, especially in Ilorin East and Ilorin West local governments where all the markets are situated. Kwara state government spends several millions of naira to have hygienic environment while every hand is on deck by the Ministry and it's Agency (KWEPA) to ensure clean environment, but the local government Environmental never allowed it to materialize, especially the opposition staff among them. Truth must be told, there are some unscrupulous elements who call themselves Local government Environmentalists who go around to receive bribes from marketers and households especially in the markets; shortly after KWEPA environmental operational Department leave the market, the local govern...

KWEPA Setout New Operative Models for year 2023. - Urges State Waste Consultants to brace up for better service delivery. The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), in preparation for year 2023 operations, has called on all state accredited waste consultants to brace up in their areas of engagement to achieve better result in the coming year.  The General Manager of the Agency, Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa made the call while hosting the Association of Private Waste Consultants in its office recently. The general manager, who expressed displeasure over the shortfall and irregularities in the monthly remittance of the waste managers in the current year, thereby amounting to a huge deficit in the projected Internally Generated Revenue accrued to the state government. He therefore appealed to the waste managers to take no further delay in offsetting their outstanding debts before the year ended, adding  that failure to do the needful would lead ...