The National Environmental Standards and Regulatory Enforcement Agency (NESREA) will now closely monitor the hospitality industry, financial institutions and other service sectors that use generators to power their operations for as long as 15 – 18 hours per day to ensure they comply with the lowest emission rate for a clean environment.
In a keynote address to participants at the Official Launch of the National Generator Emission Control Programme (NGECP) and the National Vehicular Emission Control Programme (NVECP), the Minister of Environment Mohammed Abdullahi said that the campaign for clean air intake by the population was a task for all Nigerians to undertake as the federal government enforced the laws through NESREA.
“For effective implementation of the programmes (NVECP and NGECP), you are all key in the process,”he said. “Therefore, we are calling on all of you and the general public to join hands with NESREA in ensuring a cleaner and healthier environment for Nigerians”.
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During the launch, which had stakeholders from the sector in attendance, Abdullahi pointed out that the measure would reverse the various health challenges gaseous emissions causes to the Nigerian population who are forced to inhale dangerous gaseous content released into the atmosphere by these engines of vehicles and generators.
The launch comes 9 years after it was first publicly announced in 2014 that NESREA was preparing to launch the National Vehicular Emission Control Programme under the administration of Former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking on the dangers of the gaseous emissions from the fumes of vehicles and generator sets, Abdullahi “the air we breathe is one of the most important things around us, and it is a vital natural resource on which all life depends”.
This story was adapted from Tribune.
