By Baba Shehu Oscu, Bauchi
The Bauchi State Commissioner Ministry of Environment, has charged citizens of the state to always keep their environment clean to avoid contracting diseases associated with unclean environment.
The Commissioner gave the charge in Bauchi at the end of monthly environmental sanitation exercise held across the 20 LGAs of the state, where he attributed the trending Lassa fever, Coronavirus and other diseases to unhealthy environment.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Alhaji Ahmad Zalanga explained ”when you keep your surrounding clean,there will be no breeding place for mosquitoes,rats will have no place to hide and come to contaminate food stuffs or urinate on household equipment that will lead contamination.”
He further advised the people to maintain a clean surrounding and live a healthy life, so as to avoid wasting money on medication,and prolong their lives.
He informed that, ”the state government will no longer allow people to litter their places with dirty that will translate to filthy environment and bring ill health to others.”
But expressed appreciation over the turn-out,saying “more efforts should be intensified to have a clean environment for healthy living.”
He led the supervision of the sanitation exercise to Dass local government council,where he disclosed that,his ministry will henceforth go out to other local government areas to supervise the exercise to ensure total compliance.
Speaking the Acting GM BASEPA Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar Jarma said since assumption of the present PDP administration in the state embarked on environmental sanitation to ensure cleanliness and healthy environment condition of the communities in the state where by reduce the rate of sicknesses among the people, urged People who are in the habit of dumping refuse on the roads, shops, drainages, houses and everywhere to stop this culture as his agency provide a sizeable number of designate dumping of refuse for them.
Commenting on the lukewarm attitude to the exercise, Hajiya Laraba Hamisu, a magistrate attached to Bauchi State Environmental Sanitation Protection Agency (BASEPA) noted”there is high level of non-compliance by most residents in the state.
She observed”this attitude is due to lack of stringent laws,strict compliance and absence of stiff punitive measures.”
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