Sensitizes Corps members on environmental protection
The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) has conducted a special clean up exercise at Yelwa and also organised a workshop for serving Corps members in the state.
Speaking at the venue of the clean up exercise, the Director General of the Agency Dr Ibrahim Kabir said the exercise followed a request by a Corps Member, Sule Alhaji, who is the president, NYSC Environmental CDS Group, to help him evacuate the garbages in the area as part of his Community Development Service, tagged KEEP YELWA HEALTHY.
He commended the efforts of the Corps member, Mr Sule Alhaji for his commitments towards ensuring cleanliness in his host community.
Dr Kabir also called on other Corps members to emulate him, while urging members of the public, especially organizations to come up with initiatives such as this and the Agency will provide all the necessary equipments and machineries to evacuate the wastes.
In another development, the Director General Dr Ibrahim Kabir alongside his Director of Inspection, Enforcement and Compliance Sanitarian Mohammed Usman Sale presented two papers at a workshop organised for Corps members.
The Director General said the workshop was organized to prepare the Corp Members to harness the numerous opportunities in the environmental sector, become employers of labour and to also help in keeping our environment clean and protected.
The paper presented by Sanitarian Mohammed Usman Sale on Environmental Sanitation and Sanitary Inspection of Premises, dwelt on the objectives and economic benefits of Environment Sanitation, its components, consequences and diseases associated with the poor Environmental Sanitation and unhygienic way of life style.
It also discussed factors that lead to the neglect of Environmental Sanitation, which include lack of political will, poor community participation and funding, lack of proper policies, inappropriate approaches and ineffective promotion and low public awareness.
