Ekiti  Provides Bins, Trucks for Waste Management

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti

The Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun, has attributed the transfer of technology and local content law to the mechanisms channeled towards making the state clean.

Olatunbosun stated this last Tuesday at a roundtable media parley with the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti State Council. The commissioner said the reasons for employing outsiders to manufacture equipment on waste management was to enable indigent citizens to be professional and also create job opportunities for them.

According to him, “People accused us that we brought in strangers from Lagos State to produce Dino Bins for us; no, what we are doing is transfer of technology and local content law of the government, which we are focused on.

“When you see something that has been done for a very long time, we have to follow it.”

 ‘These people have the expertise and our own people are also there in manufacturing the bins so that they can also have the knowledge.

“They are currently on training and they are identified. The reasons are because it will make them professional, make the product cheaper, and provide job opportunities.”

In a similar development, the state government has provided 20 Dino Bins and trucks to the state capital to stop arbitrary and indiscriminate dumping of refuse.

According to the commissioner, the Dino Bins would be placed in strategic places across the state capital so as the keep Ekiti State clean.

“It’s very important that we realise that in as much the government has responsibility to the people, the people also have a lot of things to do.

“There are certain things that the government won’t be the one to provide them, even when we provide bins, people will not dump refuse into them, even in the state capital.

“But, there has been an improvement; the government is doing everything to ensure that we sanitise Ado and every environs of the state.”

On water, he said the connection of the concerned areas, where dams are situated, to the national grid, will make them operational without interruption.

However, Olatunbosun lamented the reticulations of the dams, noting that the asbestos pipes used are in dilapidated condition, which are currently undergoing repair.

“One of the challenges we had with the World Bank Water project was the issue of electricity in those areas where we have the dams.

“If you consider the level of inflation with things in this country and look at the way you have to pump water nonstop for hours, it will take some times but the connection of electricity in some areas where we have some of these dams into national grid will assist a lot,” he stated.