By Gami Tadanyigbe
The Centre for Peace Advocacy and Sustainable Development (CEPASD) has called on Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) to provide waste disposable bins in FCT motor parks and other public p,aces to ensure healthy environment.
The Operation Officer, Mr Olabode Afurewaju, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that such facility would ensure protection and improvement of air, water, land, forest and wildlife of FCT ecology.
According to him, AEPB is saddled with the responsibility of preserving and restoring all ecological processes to impact status for the preservation of biodiversity.
Afurewaju said municipal liquid and solid waste collections and disposal/sanitation management services, including connections of plots to the central sewer line, are among the services of the board to FCT residents.
“Residents of the FCT are expected to cooperate and participate fully in AEPB’s efforts at carrying out these functions and specifically to comply with all rules and regulations guiding best practices in environmental management.
“Additionally, AEPB offers pollution control and environmental health fumigations and vector control services, and ensures protection and improvement of air, water, land, forest and wildlife in the ecology of the FCT.
“In light of the insightful duties and responsibilities of the aforementioned statement from the board, I will like to bring to the attention of Director, AEPB, Engr. Osilama Braimah’s, that the FCT is currently littered.
“As a result, I will like to recommend a few motor parks within the FCT for a cursory inspection from the AEPB team to see the level of degradation in terms of dirt littered around.
“At the same time, after this investigation is carried out, I’ll like to urge the board to provide at least five waste disposable bins in at least five mapped-out motor parks of their inspection, for a start.