Two Kwara agencies have agreed to collaborate to monitor the activities of waste collectors in the state.
The agencies are the state Ministry of Environment and Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS).
They agreed to partner for data collection, collation and zoning of houses, to ensure effective waste management.
This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Taiwo Okanlawon, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the ministry of environment.
According to the statement, the Commissioner for Environment, Mr Abosede Buraimoh, disclosed the agreement between the two bodies, during a working visit to the KWIRS.
Buraimoh said that the partnership would be a long lasting relationship and a best way in strategising, having the commercial waste collectors actively involved in waste collection, through the data given to them, to work with.
She added that the mode of waste collection would be properly spelt out and executed within a short period of time, in order to achieve greater output in curbing the menace in the state.
“The Commissioner acknowledged the efforts of Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in implementing environmental sustainability development principles and policies for the betterment of the state,” Okanlawon said.
Retired Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun, the Chairman of Kwara State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Taskforce, also said that the visit was to articulate issues which would serve as a measuring criteria for the waste collectors.
Balogun said that the criteria would serve as an assessment in monitoring the activities of the waste collectors, as it had not been rightly done.
Responding, the Executive Chairman of KWIRS, Dr Shade Omoniyi, expressed gratitude to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq for constituting the taskforce to change people’s mindset on waste management.
Omoniyi said that there was need to clearly spell out the duties between the commercial and social waste collectors to avoid overlapping duties and help pathways for a good job.
She promised that KWIRS would provide the data collected.
The Head of Parastatals, KWIRS, Mrs Adewunmi Adeleye, harped on the need to guide the revenue payment and data zoning for waste collection.
Adeleye said that allocating data to the consultants involve collecting waste and the modality of payment should be modified, noting the need for enforcement back up by the regulating law. (NAN)
