NESREA Harps On Environmental Protection

The National
Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has called on Enugu residents to protect the environment by reducing all negative habits that put the environment at risk.
The Enugu State Coordinator of the Agency, Mr Babatunde Adigun, made this call in an interview with newsmen in Enugu, recently.
He said that no amount of sacrifice was too big to achieve a healthy environment in the state.
Adigun noted that human activities like indiscriminate dumping of refuse, soil excavation, bush burning and illegal mining activities contributed to erosion, earth tremor and other live threatening menace.
He called for the implementation of policies and laws that would protect the environment to ensure a sustainable future for the unborn generation.
The Coordinator said that as part of the mandate of the agency, it organised a town hall meeting at Akama-Oghe, Ezeagu Local Government Area to regulate the community towards ensuring a cleaner and healthier environment.
“The town hall meeting centred on flood prevention and anti- littering of the drains.
“I embarked on the grassroots outreach to sensitise the people to the causes and prevention of flooding.
“This is to ensure that the effect of flooding is reduced through advocacy and sensitisation,’’ he said.
Adigun explained that the agency has been proactive in the areas of response to public complaints, especially in situation where human activity contributed to flooding through building on waterways or obstructing public drains.
“Our target is to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment for the people of Enugu State as well as the reduction in dumping of waste in the environment.
“NESREA is an enforcement agency, it is very important to create awareness to regulate the environment,’’ he said.
He stressed the need for environmental laws to be taught at the primary school level, so that by the time they grow up, they would have been conversant with the need to obey environmental rules and regulations.
“This awareness will make the youths to be good ambassadors of the environment and be able to teach others to protect the environment.