Ayuba Mafi
Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) has got its newly constructed mobile court office complex and the Industrial Training Hall performed by the Registrar, Environmental Health Officers Registration Council (EHORECON) Dr Yakubu Muhammad Baba in Bauchi.
In his welcome address, Director General of the Agency Dr. Ibrahim Kabir acknowledged the support Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed as well as the Commissioner of Housing and Environment, Hamisu Muazu Shira, which he said are paramount in gingering him to achieve the feat.
He also acknowledged the support of the Registrar of the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria ( EHORECON) Dr. Yakubu Muhammad Baba, Directors of the Agency, and other critical stakeholders such as the NESREA, Primary Health Care Development, BACATMA among others.
According to the Director-General, since assumption of office, all his missions is to redirect the Agency to operate in accordance with the best practices, hence the provision of the court complex for trying all environmental offences.
He also expressed optimism that, BASEPA will achieve that courtesy of the support of the Governor, the Commissioner in collaboration with other critical stakeholders working as partners.
The DG also pledged to make sure that the Agency stands tall above its peers in terms of staff discipline and productivity, capacity building, dedication to duty, transparency, and effective service delivery for the betterment of all.
He also used the occasion to appreciate the level of support and cooperation of his staff towards achieving this and urged them to properly maintain all the developmental initiatives, Buildings as well as equipment even after his tenure.
Dr. Kabir also informed the Registrar and other invited dignitaries that, Governor Bala Abdulqadir Mohammed appointed him as the State Coordinator of Afro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape (ACReSAL) a World Bank project worth almost Seven Hundred Million Dollars, targets to resolve lingering issues across Environmental, Agricultural and Water Resources sectors in 19 States of the Country.
In his speech, while cutting the tape to commission the complex, the Registrar said that constructing the mobile court complex indicated that BASEPA as a service and a regulatory organisation, is ready and capable of promoting Environmental Health practice.
He promised that EHORECON as a registration body for environmental health workers in the country will assist the Agency with all the Technical support for domesticating the National Environmental Health Policy in the state.
While acknowledging other developmental footprints in the Agency such as the Digital Economy Center, office accommodation, working tools among others, the Registrar said he is not surprised, considering his leadership style and intellectual prowess, and implore the Agency’s personnel to continue supporting the Director-General.
The Registrar also said that Dr. Kabir’s track records of transparency and judicious utilization of the Agency’s funds are today manifesting in almost all sectors of the Agency and urged him to maintain the tempo as History will remember him as one of the best people the Agency has as a leader.
