Nasarawa, Benue partner Institute for Environmental Safety

Nasarawa and Benue states have partnered Environment Safety Management Institute (ESMI) to sensitise indigenes of their states to encourage healthy and friendly environmental activities and the need to adhere to environmental safety laws.
The governments of the two states disclosed this during the sensitisation and induction of new members and award to them as environmental safety governors in the North Central states organised by ESMI in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
Speaking at the event, Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State said the synergy became imperative to curtail some practices by people that impact negatively on the environment.
Represented  by his Chief of Staff, Danazumi Mohammed, Al-Makura said they would collaborate with any group in order to encourage practices that would make the environment friendly, adding that, “Human practices such as mining, bush burning, felling of tress, dumping of rubbish in water ways among others are affecting the environment negatively.
“We as a government have established Waste Management Bureau to complement efforts of other agencies to promote environmental friendly activ-ities,” the governor also said.
On his part, Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Environment, Sanitation and Public Utility, Nathaniel Ikyur, advocated that environmental safety education should be introduced as a compulsory subject in both primary and secondary schools in the country.