Cross River environment commissioner proposes largesse for cleanest street
The re-introduced monthly sanitation exercise scheduled for last Saturday of the month since the coming on board of the Senator Bassey Otu administration to make the city of Calabar and it’s environs clean to regain her clean and green status as the nation’s tourism destination.
The state commissioner for Environment, Hon. Moses Osogi has promised to reward the cleanest streets to serve as enticement to others in an effort to achieve his drive to restoring Calabar as the cleanest city in Nigeria.
Hon. Osogi made the commitment while fielding questions from newsmen who accompanied him on tour to monitor the sanitation exercise on Saturday January 27, 2024 in Calabar.
The Commissioner who personally supervised the day’s program by making sure that refuse were properly disposed and promised to pay the sums of money ranging from N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira), N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) and N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) respectively to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd residents of the cleanest streets.
He however frown at the attitude by some person’s who disobeyed the 7am to 10am restriction imposed on movements to enable the exercise succeed and ordered for seizure of some food and other items displayed by stubborn residents to serve as a deterrent to others. He vowed to set-up a sanitation court to try offenders who shall be apprehended for flaunting the sanitation directives of his ministry.
In another development, residents at the LEMNA dumpsite in Calabar Metropolis where refuse generated in both Calabar Municipal Council Area and Calabar South Local Government Area have lamented the environmental hazard they have been exposed to daily from foul odour emanating from the refuse dump in the area;
A concern resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said many people have fallen sick in the vicinity due to the environmental risk of co-habiting with the garbage and called the governor to make good his promise during his visit to relocate it to another site to ameliorate their suffering and dying in silence.
By: Archibong Emmanuel
(Snr. Reporter)
