Minister seeks improved waste disposal in FCT
In order to tackle the problem of waste management headlong in Abuja, the FCT Administration will fine-tune its Waste Management Programme.
the Abuja environmental protection board, it could be recalled, has been flayed by the minister, since assumption of office, for shoddy service delivery which has led to the disengagement of many staff.
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, however, dropped this hint on Monday after paying an unscheduled visit to the Waste Transfer Stations in Apo, Mpape and Kubwa.
The Minister who inspected the sites in company of the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye, warned that Abuja is expanding and therefore waste transfer stations have to be developed to cater for the ever increasing level of solid waste.
Malam Bello insisted that waste transfer stations were very necessary and critical for every modern city and Abuja cannot be an exception.
He directed that all the relevant Departments must sit down to find ways and means of actualizing the fast development of these transfer stations to augment the existing dump sites.
The Minister remarked that the Waste Transfer Stations ought to be developed to sort all kinds of waste such as metal, plastic and other biodegradable wastes for easy recycling or other uses like energy generation as well as organic manure.
Malam Bello noted that “waste is wealth and (therefore) the FCT Administration must take advantage of the new technology and volume of investments in the sub-sector to make Abuja a clean city.”
The Minister said that the FCT Administration is working very hard to provide the framework and platform to make it easy for the investors to come in, which is expected to open another vista of employment prospects.
Malam Bello also paid a similar visit to the 220-Bed Utako District Hospital under construction to appraise the present status of the health facility.
