Environment
OBI Nwankwo, Anambra Commissioner for Environment, has called on residents to take full ownership of the environment to help fight emerging environmental challenges across the state.
Nwankwo made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Awka.
He said that desilting blocked drainages and clearing of wastes around the neighborhood were very important to ensuring healthy environment
Nwankwo urged the people not to wait to be chased around before doing the right thing, noting, “a healthy life starts from the home’’.
“We do not need to be reminded to wash our clothes, toilets, clean up our houses and dispose our refuse properly, these are normal things people do to enhance their wellbeing, ” he said.
Nwankwo said the ministry and Anambra State Waste Management Authority had deployed special clean-up teams across the three senatorial districts to desilt blocked drainages.
He said that they were also clearing wastes and sensitising residents on the importance of keeping the environment clean.
Nwankwo expressed the hoped that the exercise would be maintained on regular basis, while reminding residents that the campaign involved everyone in the state.
He said that the ministry could not succeed in the mandate of making Anambra one of the cleanest states in the country, if the people failed to care for their environments.
He urged them to take cleaning of the environments seriously.
Nwankwo said that issues of blocked drainages arose from poor environmental sanitation, adding that the money the state government was spending to desilting blocked drainage’s could be channelled to other areas if the people their disposed wastes properly.
The commissioner, however, cautioned residents to desist from dumping refuse indiscriminately and violating environmental laws.
He also appealed to land developers to always get approvals from the relevant authorities before embarking on constructions to avoid degrading the environment.
NAN
– Sept. 23, 2019 @ 13:49 GMT |
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