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Registrar, Environmental Health Officers Registration Council (EHORECON) Dr Yakubu Muhammad Baba cuts the tape to Commission the complex
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
The Registrar, Environmental Health Officers Registration Council (EHORECON) Dr Yakubu Muhammad Baba on Friday, Commissioned the newly constructed Environmental Mobile Court Complex, Enforcement office and the Industrial Training Students Hall of the Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA).
In his welcome address, Director General of the Agency Dr Ibrahim Kabir acknowledged the support Bauchi State Governor, Sen 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 stakeholder working as partners.
The DG also pledged to make sure that the Agency stand 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 maintained all the developmental initiatives, Buildings as well as equipments 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 utilisation 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 person the Agency has as a leader.
The Commissioner, Ministry of Housing and Environment Honourable Hamisu Muazu Shira commended the Registrar for having time to grace this an all important occasion.
According to him, “BASEPA as the only Agency under my Ministry, i must confessed that, I’m the most happiest person, because all what the Director General achieved today, my ministry will take the credits”.
He also Congratulate the Director General for his appointment as the State Coordinator of ACReSAL and assured his continued support and that of His Excellency for the Agency to deliver its mandates of keeping the State clean healthy and the Environment protected.
The entourage was later took round to see other transformational change taking place within the Agency’s Headquarters.
