EPA not responsible for waste management –EPA Director

By Emmanuella Kallon
Thursday April 28, 2015

While he was defending the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from blames by some parliamentarians that they were off target, massive deforestation, so many plastic and rubber wastes, among others, the Director of EPA, Mr. Momodu Alrashid Bah said “putting stop to deforestation and managing waste is not our responsibility”.
According to Hon. Alhassan Kamara representing Constituency 96, “if EPA is really what they are, anything concerning environment should be their mandate”, stating that Sierra Leone is a victim of injustice; “we are a low emission country”.
“I will not be surprised if we started to have land slides within the next two decades”, advising that the EPA should look at the country’s local context and bring in legislation; that every household must plant a tree, ban plastic bags, among others, stating that “they at EPA must not only be attending conferences and receiving per diem”.
Hon. Ibrahim Kamara said he is disappointed at the way EPA is shifting their responsibilities.
They made this statement at a workshop organized by the chairperson, Hon. Rosaline J. Smith and members of the committee on Lands Country Planning and the Environment for the EPA to educate Members of Parliament where the EPA is in the fight towards climate change especially when the United Nations has described Sierra Leone as one of the highest disaster prone countries.

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