The Kano State Government says it is close to completing secondary treatment plants under the Kano Integrated Pollution Management Facility in Challawa, Bompai, and Sharada industrial zones.
The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Dahir M. Hashim, who led an inspection visit to the sites on Tuesday, said the intervention was designed to address persistent complaints from host communities of environmental pollution.
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According to him, the complaints borders around foul odours, polluted waterways, unsafe borehole water and rising health concerns linked to untreated industrial discharge.
The commissioner noted that residents of the areas had long been exposed to preventable diseases and degraded living environments, which eroded confidence in environmental regulation.
“Addressing these community concerns and restoring public trust remains a central priority of our administration,” he said.
The project, according to him, is being implemented under the leadership of the state Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf in partnership with the Federal Government through the Ecological Fund Office, with technical support from UNIDO.
The facilities are expected to provide robust secondary treatment capacity for industrial wastewater, including effluent that was not adequately pre-treated at source.
Hashim explained that industries within each catchment area had ratified the project, which has sufficient capacity to significantly reduce pollution loads entering rivers, drainages, and groundwater systems.
Hashim added that treated water could be recycled for industrial and agricultural use, while sludge would be processed into manure, supporting environmental sustainability.
He assured that upon completion, the government would enforce full compliance by all industrial operators to permanently eliminate indiscriminate discharge and safeguard community health.
The facilities, he said, were designed to be operationally self-sustaining through metered discharge accountability and service-based cost recovery, in line with what he called the Governor’s vision for resilient public infrastructure and accountable governance.
