The Kano State government in partnership with a private firm, Capegate Investment Company have disclosed plans to generate 150 MegaWatts of electricity from waste in the next five years.
The Group Chief Operating Officer, CapeGate Investment Company, Bello Abba Yakasai disclosed this while briefing newsmen in the state on Wednesday.
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Yakasai said the company planned to generate 10 MegaWatts by next year and attain the 150 Megawatts in the next five years.
He said to achieve the set goal, the company intend to establish three industries namely Transfer stations, diversification of non-usable materials into gas and into fertilizer organic.
“We are going to convert High Density Plastic, HDP, tyres into burnable oil.
“LDP plastics will be used for recyclable purposes. From pure water leather, shopping bags and water bottles etc.
“For bio-degradable waste, we have two uses. One is the biggest that we are investing a lot of money on. We burn those materials to produce gas, gas help us to turn to create steel, steel turns turbines while turbines provides electricity.
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“Our hope is that by the end of next year, we will generate 10 MegaWatts of electricity from the waste in Kano. And every year after that, depending on how the typology of waste changes, we should be able to generate 30 Megawatts and so we are hoping to generate 150 MegaWatts in Kano in five years and more than what Kano requires.
“We are also considering generating 2 megawatts of solar to power street lights in Kano metropolis,” he said.
Yakasai boasted that with coming of the company within last three months, it succeeded in mitigating the state from perrenial flooding and keeping the state clean.
“We spent about eight weeks dregding all flash points of flooding in the state. With the intervention, no major case of flooding is recorded.
“It is a known fact that Kano is the most dirtiest in the country but within a short period of time, Kano is wearing a new look now.
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“It is a Public Private Partnership,( PPP) and that When we came on board, we inherited all the staffs of defunct Refuse Management and Sanitation Management Board,(REMASAB), and double their salaries including the casual staffers.
“We have over 2,000 workforce. We have recruited 200 fresh graduates. We are targeting to employ over 5,000. The partnership is for 20 years,” Yakasai however added (End).
