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GM KWEPA Congratulates Environment Commissioner on Birth Anniversary January 30, 2022 The General Manager, Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency, Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, has congratulated the Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh, on the occasion of her birth anniversary, describing her as a woman who gives her all to whatever duty committed to her hands.   Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, in a statement issued to felicitate with the Commissioner, commended her administrative prowess and described her passion for work and timely accomplishments of tasks as top-notch and praise worthy. "On behalf of the staff and Management of KWEPA,  I send our best wishes to Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh. Her support for the Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration is highly commendable. And for her superb disposition towards everyone she works with", he said in the statement. He prayed the Almighty God to bless the Commissioner with long life to ...

Beware of  Unregistered Fumigators Using Hazardous Chemicals, KWEPA Warns School Owners The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), has called on the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools at Zonal level to beware of fake Fumigators who go around making use of hazardous chemical for fumigation. The General Manager of the Agency, Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, enlightened that this deadly chemicals used by the fake fumigators poses a lot of dangers to the health of all the occupants of the school. Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, further disclosed that, a lot of abnormalities are being reported to be going on regarding fumigation at the Local government level, as some unauthentic fumigation certificates have been retrieved from some schools across the local government areas. Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, disclosed that proprietors need to verify the authenticity of the fumigators they want to engage by asking pertinent questions, and ensure ...

*FIGHT AGAINST OPEN DEFECATION: KWEPA BEGINS HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTION*  The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), has launched a house to house inspection in a bid to curb open defecation, which is one of the major factors responsible for the spread of diseases. The inspection commenced at Sango axis in Ilorin where  Environmental Health Officers and some members of staff of the Agency, thoroughly inspected houses to ascertain the provision of toilet facilities in the buildings. In the course of inspection, about Twenty (20) houses in the area covered were issued with abatement notices for lack of toilet facilities while those with soak away system that have not been evacuated; and another one referred to as a source of water contaminant also received abatement notices. Earlier, in a live radio programme, the General Manager of the Agency, Alhaji Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa had disclosed that the Agency will be starting ...

Rtd AVM heads kwara's enforcement committee on environment Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed a five-person enforcement committee to sanitise the indiscriminate disposal of waste within the Ilorin metropolis. The committee, chaired by retired Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun, will work with existing structures in the Ministry of Environment and some adhoc bodies to ensure that the state capital is clean in a bid to guarantee public health, according to a statement by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Rafiu Ajakaye. Other members of the five-person committee are: retired Col Kayode Umar;  Navy Captain Ayodele Olowolagba; General Manager of Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA)Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-musa; and Gabriel Towoju as Secretary. "The committee will work with various stakeholders, including community leaders, to ensure that waste disposal is properly done and the environment is kept clean at all times," the statem...

*ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE: The menace cause by Street beggars*  By Saad Danmusa Many contemporary states in the country has made frantic efforts  ensuring that street Beggars are evacuated from their major streets. Kwara state government would not be the last to evacuate them completely from the major roads like Geri-Alimi Underpass and some notable places in the state Capital which is continuously causing Environmental Nuisance. From a reliable source, 80% of these Street Beggars can not speak any Nigeria Language and assumed that they are from the Neigbouring countries using the begging habit to search for greener pastures; they are brought down to Ilorin on daily basis with Trailers from the North and South. KWEPA as an Agency can no longer tolerate this act because of their incessant littering of the streets with faecal matters, Urine and waste on the major roads which can lead to the outbreak of diseases. Though, ver...

*ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE ON ENCROACHMENT: APPRECIATION TO DR AFEEZ ABOLORE ALABI & OTHERS!*  Why do we call Ilorin our proud city? It is to play our individual roles to ensure the Emirate is rated the best among other contemporary states in the country like kaduna, Osun, Lagos and others. In a bid to secure Ipata market from lost of lives resulting from encroachment to the road and indiscriminate dumping of waste, Dr. Afeez Abolore Alabi played important roles to support KWEPA as a Social Agency to barricade the market with galvanize pipe from Pake Primary to the gate. This project has pave ways for passerbys and equally minimized danger on that axis and no passes through without praying for the executors and contributors; may Allah reward Dr. Alabi Abolore. In the same vain, our community appreciate people like (1). AbdulHakeem Mustapha (SAN) who donated of 24 new class rooms and an ict centre by IKH IWANU NASIR DEEN PRIMARY SCHOOL AT KUNTU (OJATUNTUN) ILORIN (2). Alh...

Iyaloja Ipata Market Mobilises Market Women to Disrupt Government Activity: ... mob Environmental Officers It is no news that the Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA) has been working effortlessly to sanitize Ipata Market and make it free of road encroachment.  The Ipata market has in times past witnessed death of innocent souls which resulted from road encroachment.  There is no one who would pass through the Ipata market that would not  give credit to Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency for their excellent discharge of duty in sanitizing the market, the first of it's kind in the history of Ilorin.  However, its so saddening that the woman appointed  to oversee the activities of the market and marketers joined hands with disrupters to destroy the galvanized barricade polls mounted at Ipata Market to curb encroachment.  She and other marketers, further mobbed the Environmental officers supervising the barricade installatio...