Patrick Osadebamwen
Kaduna State Governor, Architect Namadi Sambo has said his administration expends N80 million in its efforts to rid the city of it generated waste.
Over 30 companies have been contracted by the state government for cleaning the city for which the sum of N80 million is expended monthly. The cumulative cost of cleaning the city on annual basis translates to N.960billion.
The govenor gave this hint in Abuja while commmending the federal government over its move to site some of its waste management projects in the state.
His words: “We have decided to outsource garbage collection and in Kaduna metropolis alone we have over 30 companies that are collecting garbage at the cost of over N80 million on monthly bases.
It was in view of this huge cost implication for cleaning the city that the state has expressed its readiness to partner with the Ministry of Environment on the establishment of three waste mangement projects.
Namadis sambo said the planned waste management projects would assist the state reduce the burden of this huge cost on waste management.
According to him “the garbage processing plant being supported by this minstry is going to save us this problem by bringing in a public private partnership in this direction such that the company would take that responsibility away by processing the waste to produce electricity, fertilizer and other important imputs while creating jobs.”
Namadi said the establishment of a metal procesessing plant in the state was apt as it was came at a time the state government was seeking ways to remove all accident vehicles and other forms of garbage form the environment.
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