KCTA Launches Empowerment Programme

The Kaduna Capital Territory Authority (KCTA) has launched the Kaduna State Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme (KAD-CARES), which is aimed at creating jobs and environmental sanitation.

The Administrator of KCTA, Malam Muhammad Hafiz Bayero, who made this known, explained that KAD-CARES is a Labour Intensive Public Works Programme which has keyed into the overall objective of youth empowerment of Kaduna State Government.

Speaking further on the programme, the Acting Director of Municipal Waste Management of KCTA, Dr Umar Haira’u, said that 500 youths have already been recruited to sweep and keep major roads clean.

Dr Haira’u explained that KAD-CARES Is designed to keep the environment clean while financially empowering the youth to enable them recover from the effects of COVID-19.

According to him, the main task of the youth is to sweep all major roads and pick up litters along the road and put them in sacks for evacuation by Private Service Providers (PSP).

The Acting Director added that the KCTA has engaged 13 private service providers, who were contracted to manage waste collection and disposal in line with the state’s policy of waste management.

“Another set of youth will be recruited to desilt drainages, while others will be recruited under vegetation control to remove all vegetation cover and grasses from the major roads.

“The youth will be moving around to trim overgrown trees and grass covering the road and put them in a sack for evacuation by the PSP to the dump sites.

“To further empower the youth, KCTA has encouraged the PSP to also recruit scavengers as loaders, trash collectors or monitor and report activities at designated dump sites,” he added.

The Acting Director said that the KCTA has provided refuse receptacles, a metal or plastic container for the disposal of refuse, in strategic locations across the four metropolitan Local Government Areas (LGAs).

Dr Haira’u identified the four metropolitan LGAs as Kaduna South, Kaduna North, Chikun and Igabi.