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.

Abubakar Baba     Omar Gambari     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Kola Adesina     Coronavirus     Oke-Oyi     Turaki Of Ilorin     Lanre Jimoh     Hassan Taiye Salam     SAPZ Project     Deji Ajani     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Oko-Olowo     Mary Arinde     Local Government     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     CCB     Muhammadu Gobir     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Labaeka     Saliu Alamoyo     ER-KANG Mining     Sa\'adu Salahu     Lai Mohammed     Bond     NIPR     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Kaosarah Adeyi     Tunji Moronfoye     Nigerian Medical Association     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Mohammed Abduraheem     Olofa Of Offa     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Haliru Dantoro     Suleiman Idris     Oko Erin     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Student Learning Support Helpline     Iyiola Oyedepo     Moremi High School     Ahmad Lawan     Apado     Jawondo     Issa Manzuma     IHS Towers     Ndama Al-hassan     Admiralty Villa     NULGE     BIR     Kwara 2019     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Oloriegbe     Tunde Oyawoye     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Saliu Mustapha     Offa Poly     Odolaye Aremu     Cornelius Adebayo     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Amada Jidda     Kayode Bankole     Yahaya Muhammad     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Forgo Battery     Maja     Senate     KW-GIS     Sabo-Oke     Mahee Abdulkadir     Pategi     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Bolaji Aladie     Undergraduate Bursary    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Press Release     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Minimum Wage     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Kubra Kazum     Razaq Atunwa     Paul Odama     Sobi Hill     Balogun-Ojomu     Abdulkadir Orire     Fatai Olodo     Wasiu Onidugbe     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Opobiyi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Ajidagba     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Bolakale Saka     Abraysports FC     Vasolar Consultoria     Kayode Bankole     Lateef Fagbemi     Oya State     Kwara Liberation Group     EFCC     Aremu Odolaye     Al-Adaby     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Bola Sagaya     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Maryam Nurudeen     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Yakubu Gobir     11th Galadima     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Abraham Ojo     Ajeigbe     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Offa     Wahab Issa     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     VADA     Olushola Saraki     Babaita     Demola Banu     T And K FOODS     Aliyu Sabi     Adebayo Salami     Monkey Pox     NaAllah     IsDB     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Saliu Tunde Bello     Tunji Moronfoye     Yemi Sanni     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Flights To Ilorin     Ike Ekweremadu     Woro     Post-utme     Elesie Of Esie     Dorcas Afeniforo     Sadiq Umar     Iyaloja-General     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Hussein Oloyede     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Sunday Otokiti     Towoju     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Femi Agbaje