In a move to nip illegal waste disposal and management in the bud, the Oyo State government, through the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, has decentralised the waste management sector.
The Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola explained that the move would lead to the coming together of strong forces working as a formidable team to deliver an effective waste management system that will cater adequately to the state’s needs in ensuring a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
To this effect, the state government has engaged the services of Alluvia UC (an organisation with vast experience in the circular economy sector and work experience across all the geo-political zone of Nigeria) as a consultant alongside others to achieve the set goal.
In a statement by the organisation’s communications lead, Temitope Lawal, it said that the short-term aim of this project is for sanity and orderliness to be instilled into waste generation and disposal around the state where everyone must ‘own their action’ by doing the right thing to protect the environment and on the long run permanently imbibing the culture of circularity into every citizen of the state.
Lawal noted that “it is high time Oyo state sets the pace again on this pertinent issue affecting almost all the states in the country and this we can only achieve if we collectively join hands with Architect Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, the Hon Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources to set things right.
“We must all play our individual role in promoting a healthy, safer and cleaner society”.
