Patrick Osadebamwen
Kaduna state government has promised to provide land to the federal government for the construction of the proposed Plastic processing plant in the state.
Governor Namadi Sambo said this when he paid a courtesy call to the Minister of Environment Mr. John Odey at his office in Abuja.
Sambo said his administration has mainstream environmental into his governance policy to the extent that a ministry for environment has been created.
He maintained that the states efforts to support the initiative of the federal government informed its decision to allocate the ministry of environment an area in the light industrial zone of the state for the construction of the plant
The governor expressed the gratitute of his state to the federal government for its choice of Kaduna state for the establishment of three projects which spiral effects would create employment for the skilled and unskilled youths in the state.
According to him the company will create important input into the state and create jobs for the people of the state”
Odey noted that the contracts for the processing plants have been awarded and commended the state government for its kind gestures for land provision.
He also called on the governor to make his state a center for awareness on the importance of the environment to the people as well as adequately inform and educate the people on the issues of climate change and its effects on all spheres of human endeavour.
Odey said the federal government was quite elated by the briefs from the state governor on his reception of the three environmental projects in the state.
The three projects proposed by the federal government to be established in Kaduna state are: installation of metal scrap recycling plant; intergrated waste mangement scheme project which is on going and the plastic recycling plant.
It was gathered that the plastic recycling plant contract has been awarded while the MOU for the Integrated Waste Management Scheme is being fine-tuned.
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