Obafemi Sunday
Ado-Ekiti
The Supervisor For Environment in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Hon. Tunde Akinlabi has charged residents of the area on the need to keep their environment clean as a way to preventing the outbreak of diseases.
Akinlabi who made the charge on Saturday while monitoring the September Edition of the monthly environmental sanitation in each of the Community across the Local Government Area, explained that residents can take preventive measure against diseases such as cholera, Malaria, Typhoid among others.
According to him, some practices such as open defecation, drinking untreated water from unclean sources, improper disposal of refuse and not washing hands with soap must be stopped to ensure healthy living and healthy environment.
He added that the government would continue to sensitize members of the public on the need to embrace and adhere strictly to hygienic rules.
The Supervisor For Environment who was accompanied by the Head of Department of Environmental, Health and Sanitation, Mrs. Funmi Esan gave an assurance that the administration of the Local Government Chairman, Hon. Sola Ogunsina will soon embark on a door-to-door campaign round neighbourhoods and markets, parks and other public places on the need for cleaniness.
“We urge members of the public to adhere to the process of ensuring Personal Hygiene, cleanness of environment and facilities such as toilets, bushy areas as well as improper dumping of refuse must be Cheackmated”. He said.
“All tenements and property owners must prevent exposure of refuse; waste should be properly bagged and disposed off through the appropriate waste collector Section” he added.
The Supervisor urged the environmental officers In the Local Government Area to brace up, calling on them to make sure people’s surroundings are safe, healthy and hygienic.
Akinlabi who frowned at the inability of some Motorists to adhere strictly to the environmental law of obeying a two hours sanitation and clean up of their environments also urged them to ensure full compliance with the Government’s directive, rules and policies at all times in order not to contravane the provisions of the law.
He urged the environmental officers in the local government to embrace best practices and avoid indolence in carrying out their duties.
Parts of the Communities the Supervisor and his team inspected include Ido-Ekiti, Usi-Ekiti, Ayetoro-Ekiti and Ilogbo-Ekiti.
Weldon ido/osi LG,
On the part on the government, provision of modern instruments for the department, trucks for waste collection to the 16LGA, employment of more personnels (EHOs) to meet the WHO standard , among others to mention few.
But government is not providing these thereby affecting the profession to meet up with his obligation