KWEPA Seals Ilorin Building Over Illegal Sewage Disposal Threatening Public Health

Date: 2025-04-13

The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA) has sealed a residential building in Adabata, Ilorin West Local Government Area, over alleged violations of environmental laws. The property, located at Alagbede Compound, Ita-Elefun, Adabata, was closed at approximately 2:00pm on Friday for environmental infractions.

A statement by KWEPA's Press Secretary, Jamiu Amode, released to the media on Sunday, detailed the enforcement action. The agency's Acting General Manager, Idayat Adeola - who was represented by Sanitarian Abigail Are during the operation - explained that the building was sealed after a community member reported residents were discharging human waste into the environment through a defective soakaway.

KWEPA warned that the soakaway's leakage, if left unaddressed, could lead to disease outbreaks, posing serious health risks to residents in the area.

"The act of the occupants of the house is very dangerous to the health of inhabitants of the area, adding that the decision to seal off the house was to enforce compliance with the environmental laws and prevent the community from the epidemic, due to the carelessness of the occupants of the building."

She said the act of the occupants is liable to cause infectious diseases such as cholera contrary to the provision of health and environmental law and urged the general public to complement government efforts in the fight against open defecation in order to prevent outbreak of diseases, the statement said.

It would be recalled that the state government had advised landlords in the state to provide toilet facilities in their houses in an effort to stop open defecation in the state.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Millennium Development Goals     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Oloyede     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Nnazua     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Hamza Usman     John Obuh     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Jalala     Sardauna     Oni Adebayo     Rasheed Jimoh     Olokoba Sulyman     Riskat Opakunle     First Lady     Durbar Festival     Doyin Agbamu     Kwara Politics     Elese Of Igbaja     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Pius Abioje     Adesoye     Nigerian Medical Association     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     AGM Professional Services     Budo Egba     Sadiq Buhari     Hijaab     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Muhammadu Buhari     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Samari     08001000100     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Alaaya     Ekweremadu     Obayomi Azeez     Ado Ibrahim     Amos Sayo     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Ayo Adeyemi     John Dara     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Sayomi     TETFUND     Sherif Sagaya     Kisra     Biliaminu Aliu     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Sobi Hill     Pilgrims Board     Fatimat Saliu     Kwara State Governor     Sango-UITH Road     Ajayi Okasanmi     Share/Tsaragi     Split Diamond Interchange     Ballah     Oko-Erin     Suleiman Ajadi     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Atunwa     Unilorin FM     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Sunset Workers     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Shehu Salau     Ilorin Emirate     Salman Jawondo     Saidu Yaro Musa     Boko Haram    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Amos Sayo     Ali Ahmad     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Mutawalle     Apado     Rafiu Ajakaye     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Bukola Ajikobi     Tunde Akanbi     Obuh     Sa\'adu Salahu     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Esuwoye     Siraj Oyewale     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Muhammed Aliyu     Buhari     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Abdullahi Atanda     Forgo Battery Company Limited     AIT Ilorin     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Unilorin     Hassan Oyeleke     S.O. Opowoye     Adeleke Ogungbe     Sadiq Buhari     Atunwa     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Jamiu Oyawoye     Radio Kwara     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Wasiu Odewale     08001000100     Women Radio     Suleiman Abubakar     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Agbarigidoma     Modibbo Kawu     Naira Redesign     Oni Adebayo     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Azeez Bello     Adesoye College     Idiagbon     Umar Gunu     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Turaki     Yahaya A Paniyaro     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Olatunde Michaels     Aso-ofi     Ahmad Uthman     Senate President     Oloye     Undergraduate Bursary     Alaro     Minister     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     GGDSS Pakata     Emir Of Ilorin     Durbar Festival     Post Utme     Olatomiwa Williams     Oladimeji Thompson     PPS     Okin Biscuit     Dasuki Belgore     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Yakub Lai Gobir