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The Kogi Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mrs Rosemary Osikoya, has appealed to the residents of the state and other relevant stakeholders to volunteer for community service in sanitation and waste management.
Osikoya made the appeal when the representatives of Zariagi Youth Community Forum (ZYCF), Kabba Junction, paid her a “Thank You” visit in her office on Thursday in Lokoja.
Osikoya said the government needs volunteers from communities, groups, organizations and religious bodies that would partner with them for effective waste management from generation to recycling stage.
“We are encouraging every community, individual, organisation and household to take responsibility for the management of their waste to ensure an environment that is safer for all to live.
“The sanitation board law says it is an offence for anybody to pour dirt on the roadsides; it is also an offence for any house not to have the recommended dust bins by the state government.
“Government has promised 15 per cent reduction in indiscriminate dumping of refuse, and by 2019 we are expected to have achieved 60 per cent success across the state,” Osikoya said.
She thanked the people for supporting and appreciating the government’s in clearing heaps of indiscriminate refuse dump sites across the state which have been there for over two decades.
Mr Salihu Jimoh, the Chairman of the association, said they came on behalf of their community to express gratitudes to the State Government for removing the heaps of refuse in there areas that had been there for decades.
According to Jimoh, the clearing of those refuse sites will be the first of its kind since the creation of the state 25 years ago, which their community leaders have tried to evacuate without success.
“We are lucky to have a state government that is focused, and a dynamic commissioner who had recognised our community for such environmental development. We appreciate the gesture and we have come to say ‘thank you’.
Credits: Stephen Adeleye | NAN
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