EKITI YOUTH PARLIAMENT AND EKITI STATE WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD (EKSWAMA) ENGAGE IN KEY STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION.

Date: Thursday, 11th of January, 2023.

A delegation of Principal Officers of the Ekiti Youth Parliament, flanked by the Speaker; RT.Hon. Olusanya Nathaniel engaged in key stakeholder meeting with the Director-General of EKSWAMA; Mr. Sunkanmi Onipede, on how to further improve the state of cleanliness in Ekiti State and also utilize stakeholder collaborations to realise Ekiti’s Waste Management Strategy.

The Director-General reassured the parliamentarians on his commitment to ensuring that the agency keeps Ekiti clean;not just the state capital. He stated
that “To keep Ekiti Clean is a collective effort”.

The Parliamentarians were also informed of the agency’s one-going synergy with the Lagos Waste Management Agency to provide the needed infrastructure to further increase the Waste Management capacity of the state.

The Parliamentarians were taken on a tour of the project site, which is expected to be completed in three weeks. At the site, we met with the head of the engineering team from LAWMA, Engr. Lekan who told us all the collaboration between LAWMA and EKS- WAMA and the fruit it will bear. Also at the site, Parliamentarians saw real-time construction of equipment such as Dino-Bins, and other novel and refurbished equipment.

This transformational approach by EKSWAMA is due to strategic investment by the Ekiti State Governor; Biodun Oyebanji in the agency, to improve the state of environmental cleanliness in Ekiti.

For these investments to bear fruit, the parliament urges Ekiti Kete to keep their immediate and remote environment clean, eschew littering, and pledge their quota for a cleaner, brighter, and better Ekiti.
#cleanerEkitiForAll.