Abia state to involve a foreign company in waste recycling –ASEPA Board Chairman

August 16, 2016

BY IJENDU IHEAKA

The Chairman, Abia State Environmental Protection Agency,(ASEPA) Board, Mrs Loveth Ofoegbu on Tuesday said that the agency has plans to bring in a foreign company to recycle waste in Abia.

Ofoegbu disclosed this at during an interview with newsmen at Abayi, Aba during a public enlightenment campaign to show residents how to package and manage their wastes.

“We are also arranging for some foreign people to come to Nigeria, and Abia in particularly to establish a waste management recycling company. They will soon be here. 

“If you separate your waste, they will pay you. You will find out that when you give people a token for separation, everybody will be rushing to separate their wastes. 

“All those things are part of the plan. Just like I said, Rome was not built in a day. We are barely three months and we are doing this that means we know where we are going to”, she said.

She said that they were carrying out an awareness campaign to enlighten Abia residents on how to separate and package their wastes for easy handling.

Ofoegbu said that the governor had also approved the collaboration of the agency with a local waste management company, Halfan Cleaning Company to ensure that Abia state was made clean.

She said that the agency was working in concert with a Taskforce to enforce the plan of making Abia clean adding that anybody who fails to follow the rules would be dealt with.

“That is what we are fighting for so we urge the general public to assist us to make sure that the state is clean. 

“Anyway we are working in conjunction with a taskforce that is in charge of this. So if you fail to do that they will handle you and hand you over to the appropriate authority”, she said.

 Ofoegbu who is a lawyer also assured the agency was working to provide residents who do not have any dumpsters and waste buckets in their area some to put their waste in.