The Kaduna Capital Territory Authority, KCTA has recruited 500 youths to sweep and keep major roads clean.
Acting Director, Municipal Waste Management, KCTA Umar Haira’u stated this in an interview in Kaduna.
Haira’u said the youths were engaged under the Kaduna State COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme, KD-CARES Labour-Intensive Public Works, LIPW.
He explained that the LIPW was designed to keep the environment clean while financially empowering the youth to enable them recover from the effects of COVID-19.
The acting director noted that the main task of the youths was to sweep all major roads and pick up litter along the road and put them in sacks for evacuation by Private Service Providers, PSP, adding that the KCTA has engaged 13 private service providers, who were contracted to manage waste collection and disposal in the state.
