Residents of FCT have been assured by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board that no diseases will spread as a result of the sewage treatment program.
The News Agency of Nigeria said this promise was given on Monday when the Director of the AEPB, Dr. Osi Braimah, visited the Wupa Sewage Treatment Plant in Idu, Abuja.
He advised the inhabitants not to worry and explained that there was no sewage discharge in the FCT, only sewage treatment.
“The treatment of raw sewage poses no concern of pandemic or disease outbreak.”
He added that they have two 15 kva generators running, so there is no time they shut down operations for six months while we serviced our plants.
He also noted that occasionally, they shut one down for maintenance purposes. “They each work for 500 hours before we service it; during that time, another one comes into commission working alternately.
“The sewage from phases 1, 2, 3, and a portion of phase 4 of the FCT are all treated at this facility, which is the largest waste treatment plant in the FCT.”
“It is clean, and the FCT does not have any raw sewage outflow. The effluents that we release into the Wupa Sewage Treatment Plant adhere to Nigerian and global water discharge guidelines.”
He assured the residents that the plant is operational, and all bus-bar reactors are fully operational.
There are six bus-bar reactors, four of which, according to him, are still available for growth.
