The Oyo State government has set up a Rapid Response Team to assist disgruntled state residents and make waste evacuation easier for them, also setting up hotlines for them to call and lodge complaints.
This was revealed in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Bashir Olanrewaju on Tuesday. He also said that a responsive government does its best to maintain the environmental and psychological sanity of its people, in this case by setting up a solid waste management structure.
In his words: “We are putting in all efforts to deal with the challenges of waste evacuation, but we are asking residents, private waste contractors and other stakeholders affected to play by the rules of this new system in a bid to accomplish a dirt-free State and a sustainable environment that will improve the social wellbeing of every individual in the State.”
“This also, is the reason we have set up a Rapid Response Team to see to complaints of residents and fix problems associated with solid waste evacuation in Ibadan metropolis and the rest of the State, this also involve the release of the special numbers (hotlines) for this purpose, so that residents can call, make their complaints and work with the appropriate authority in ridding their environment of dirt.”
The statement also contained the three hotline numbers state residents who are experiencing a delay in waste evacuation can call: 08067945877, 07032328993 and 08126573859
Oyo residents were also advised to cooperate with the State government and make sure the state remains clean by dumping waste at approved waste collection points, also reminding them to only make waste payments to the approved state account.
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