Mustafa Abubakar
14 October 2008
Ilorin — The Commissioner for Environment, Housing and Rural Development in Oyo state, Alh Mukaila Makanjuola Aborode has explained why Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state has remained dirty, as he said that spirited efforts were being made to reverse the trend.
Mukaila in an interview with journalists in Ilorin during a two days retreat organized by the federal ministry of Environment for the stakeholders lamented that the dirtiness in Ibadan persisted because the tripartite agreement the state and federal government made with Shore Environmental services to clean the state capital has collapsed.
"The cleaning contract has been given to Sore Environmental Services, there was a tripartite agreement between Shore, federal ministry of environment and Oyo state, but they have not performed at all. But we are in the process of reporting them to the federal government to review the contract" he stressed.
The commissioner also said, "But I want you to have it at the back of your mind that Ibadan as one of the largest cities in Nigeria is a place where we generate horrendous and supernatural refuse", noting that the only part of Ibadan city that is dirty is the express way"
Speaking on the efforts being made to reverse the trend, the commissioner who recalled that, "when our administration came, the situation we met was appalling, aside the issue of UNDP report in 2001 which tagged Ibadan city as one of the dirtiest in Africa", said one of the priorities of the present administration is to provide permanent solution to the issue of waste management.
According to him,' since we came on board, we have procured about 20 roller road tractors to deal with the problem of waste in Oyo state, while we employed 2500 cleaners to clean our streets."
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