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Wupa Sewage Treatment Plant: Senate tasks AEPB on alternative energy

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4 years ago

November 13, 2022

By Abdulateef Taiwo

The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has tasked the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) to make use of alternative energy in the operations of Wupa Sewage Treatment Plant located in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

This, the committee said would reduce the cost of using diesel in the daily operations of the plant.

Sen. Smart Adeyemi, Chairman of the Committee made the call while leading members of the committee on an oversight visit to the plant on Sunday.

He said that the use of alternative energy would save more money for the agency.

“I do not think it is proper to continue to run diesel when we are gifted here in the north to have solar plant.

“It is not economically wise and to me it’s not something that should be encouraged than to embark on solar power plant that will carry this system at a lesser cost.

“All these systems should go solar because there is worldwide recession and diesel will not give room for efficiency but corruption because no matter how you want to do it, corruption will come in.

“Let us start thinking before this administration will go. We can start the process of putting solar plants, alternative energy; friendly energy,” Adeyemi said.

Speaking on the function of the plant, Director AEPB, Engineer Braimah Osilama said that as of September, the agency received about 43, 000 cubic meter of sewage in the plant.

“We treat and discharge into the Wupa river. It is a biological treatment system, no chemicals are used at all.x

He expressed concern over the huge cost of running the plant.

“The huge cost in treatment plants like this in terms of operation and maintenance is the energy cost and Wupa at the moment is functioning on two generators permanently.

“Each one consumes about 140 litres of diesel per hour and we don’t shut down at all.”

Osilama , however, said that the agency was on a project geared toward solving the problem.

“There is a project now to solve this problem. We created a dedicated line to serve Wupa so that the generator will now serve as backup.”

For the Executive Secretary Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) Shehu Ahmad, said that the Authority was in advanced stage discussing with investors on Captive Power on some critical infrastructure.

“A captive power plant is a facility that provides a localised source of power to an energy user.”

Ahmad said that the treatment plant and some other street lights were areas where the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has identified and earmarked as critical infrastructure.

“These are areas in which we are discussing with investors who have come to provide captive power,” he said.

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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12

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October 3, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.

In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.

Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.

She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.

“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.

Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.

“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.

Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.

“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.

“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.

Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.

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