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By Akanji Alowolodo, Bauchi
To ensure the cleanliness of Bauchi Metropolis and other urban towns across the State, the Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) is set to regulate the activities of sugarcane sellers.
This was disclosed by the Director General of the Agency, Dr Ibrahim Kabir when he led a team of Environmental Health Officers of the Sanitary Inspection of the Agency to sugarcane market on a sensitization and enforcement of provision of dustbins in their pushcarts on Saturday.
The Director General who was represented by the Head of Inspection unit of the Agency, Sanitarian Haruna Suleiman also called on the sugarcane sellers to maintain good hygiene, cover the sugarcane with polythene leather and ensure proper disposal of their waste at the government approved dumping sites while hawking their products along the major roads and streets in state capital and urban towns of the state.
While calling on on them to ensure full compliance, the Director General warned that, henceforth, anyone found moving without a dustbin in his pushcart will be considered as saboteur, such person will be arrested and prosecuted by the Agency’s Environmental Mobile Court, adding that, the policy is for the overall interests of the general public.
While responding, the State Secretary of the Sugarcane Sellers Association, Mallam Idris Shuaibu who spoke on behalf of the chairman, appreciated the Idea, saying that it will go along way in keeping the state clean and the improvement of the health and wellbeing of the general public.
While commending the Agency for giving them adequate time and sensitisation before the enforcement, the Secretary assured of his member’s readiness to comply with the directive.
Recall that the Agency banned the dumping of refuse by the roadsides, pavement and pedestrian walkways in all the major roads and streets of the metropolis.
The regulation is to compliment the ban, which is also part of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Framework (MSWMF) introduced by the Agency as contained in a statement by Isyaka Laminu Badamasi, SA Media to DG BASEPA.
