In its effort to regulate and monitor the activities of the waste collectors, the Kwara State Ministry of Environment has affirmed its readiness to partner with the Kwara State Internal Revenue service (KWIRS) for data collection for the collation and zoning of houses to ensure effective waste management in the state.
The Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh said this during a working visit to the KWIRS Executive Chairman's Office with Management of the ministry , the Kwara State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Taskforce,(Rtd) Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun and his counterpart, (Rtd) Colonel Kayode Umar, a member of the taskforce.
Buraimoh said this step will go along way in strategizing the best way of
having the commercial waste collectors actively involved in waste collection through the data given to them to work on.
She added that the mode of waste collection will be properly spelt out and executed within a short period of time inorder to achieve greater output in curbing the menace in the state.
The Commissioner acknowledged the efforts of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in implementing environmental sustainability development principles and policies for the betterment of the state.
In his own contributions, the Chairman, Kwara State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Taskforce, Rtd, Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun; said the visit was to articulate issues which will serve as a measuring criteria for the waste collectors in the state.
He stated further that these criteria will serve as an assessment in monitoring the activities of the waste collectors as these have not been rightly done earlier.
Earlier, while welcoming the Commissioner and her team,the Executive Chairman, KWIRS, Dr. Shade Omoniyi expressed gratitude to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq for constituting the taskforce Committee to change people's mindset on waste management.
Omoniyi added that there is 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 will provide the data collected.
The Head of Parastatals, KWIRS, Mrs Adewunmi Adeleye who is in charge of the data collection emphasized on the need to the guide the revenue payment and data zoning for waste collection.
She stressed further on the need for allocating data to the consultants who will only collect waste and the modality of payment will be modified, noting the need for enforcement backed up by the regulating law.