KWEPA Seals Ilorin Building Over Illegal Sewage Disposal Threatening Public Health
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.
Olajumoke Monsura Gafar Balogun-Ojomu Ijagbo Health Centre NURTW Abdulkarim Adisa Balogun Gambari Habeeb Saidu Aisha Gobir Lanre Badmus New Naira Notes JMK Construction Company Limited Otuka Abdulrahman Abdulrasak Revenue Court Lateef Ademola Olatunji Women Radio Oba Of Jebba AbdulGafar Tosho Christian Association Of Nigeria International Public Sector Accounting Standards Jide Oyinloye NaAllah Kwasu Medinat Folorunsho Salman Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah Moses Afolayan Park Onikijipa Paul Odama Alimi Garba Idris Ajia Saidu Yaro Musa Abdulfatai Salman Baakini Oladipo Akanmu Tolani Kwara Basketball Association Gbenga Olawepo ITP College Of Health Zainab Abass Yusuf Amuda Abubakar Wahab Olasupo Egbewole Amuda Bembe Hassan A. Saliu Kola Olota Surajudeen Akanbi Ishola Balogun Fulani Monthly Sanitation Lanre Olosunde Oye Tinuoye Kwara State Geographic Information Service Muhammed Abdullahi Flights To Ilorin State Bureau Of Internal Revenue Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman Abdulazeez Uthman Ramat Oganija Kale Kawu Hauwa Nuru Facebook Ajuloopin Gbenga Adebayo Nurudeen Muhammed Shero Raimi Iyanda Sabitiyu Grillo BECE Minimum Wage Lawyers Unite Against Corruption IDPU Jamiu Oyawoye Hijab Lafia Aliyu Korasabi International Vocational Centre Harrison Osauwagboe Olateju Lukman Bayer Nigeria Limited Matthew Babaoye

