Kano-ACReSAL introduces the ESMP and RAP Consultants to Rarin and Bulbula-Gayawa Communities
The State Project Coordinator Dr. Dahir Muhammad Hashim led a team comprising the project staff and the representative of the consultancy firms engaged for Environment and Social Management Plan (ESMP) and Resettlement Action plan (RAP)studies, to the proposed erosion control sites at Bulbula-Gayawa in Nassarawa and Rarin in Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Areas respectively.
In a Press Release posted on the Facebook page of the outfit, the aim of the visit is to formally introduce them to the communities, to familiarize and to enlighten the communities on the purpose of the engagement and the support expected from them to facilitate successful implementation of the exercise.
In the quest for royal blessing for the exercise, the PC appealed to the Sarkin Dawaki Maitutan Bichi the District Head of Dawakin Tofa, Alhaji Ismail Umar Ganduje, for his continual support towards encouraging communities to adopt the good practices that the ACReSAL project is preaching.
The Project Coordinator further stated that Kano State Government under the able leadership of his Excellency Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf is determined to addressing environmental challenges in the state
In his response, the District Head of Dawakin Tofa, has acknowledges all the efforts and commitment the project has been putting in place to ensure the success of the intervention in the community.
He therefore, called on the community to be good ambassadors, particularly those that are going to be directly affected by the exercise to ensure that successful and a hitch free exercise is attained.
Earlier, the Environmental Safeguard Officer Alhaji Mukhtar Bello in his address, spelled out what the consultancies entail as an important instruments in the erosion control work.
The Environment and Social Management Plan (ESMP) and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) in addition to other instruments are part of the instruments that pave way for mobilization of machinery to project site for construction, by ensuring that the natural environment is safeguarded, and to also ensure property are judiciously compensated to their rightful owners, he added.
The team visited the erosion control sites at Bulbula-Gayawa in Nassarawa and Rarin in Dawakin-Tofa LGA.
Participants included SPMU staff under the leadership of the PC, representative of the consultancy firms, traditional councils, Site Committee, Community Association members of the community among others