Kano state government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure the State remains clean and tidy aimed at maintaining its status as mega city through the concept of “waste wealth.”
The State commissioner for Environment Dr Kabiru Ibrahim Getso disclosed this while inspecting some facilities of the ministry as part of collaboration between the State Government and a waste Management company.
He said a lot of wealth has been generated from waste in developed countries “we want Kano to follow suit in such a way that the amount of waste that are being generated daily be converted to wealth” he emphasized.
The commissioner said the state government will integrate a number of facilities and personnel own by Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board REMASAB in to the project as equity which will make the company to be remitting from fifty millions Naira, to hundred Million and subsequently two-hundred million naira monthly.
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Dr. Getso, further said the agreement would last for twenty years, assuring that the collaboration would not affect the strange of the staff of the agency “ No single staff of the agency would lose his job as a result of partnership, so also the private companies employed by the government would continue to be part of the project.” Getso assured.
While inspecting the Zaura re-cycle plant, the Commissioner impressed with facilities on the ground and maintained that the project will generate waste that would convert in to Bio-gas, Organic and Inorganic Manure which would enhance the revenue generation of the State.
The Commissioner added that when the project takes off about four thousand five hundred workers would be employed at the three main operational centers; comprising Dorayi Composing plant, Kawo bio-gas plant and Zaura recycle centers.
