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Sanitation
Dutse, Nov. 11, 2016 (NAN) The Jigawa State Environmental Protection Agency (JISEPA) has evacuated massive waste in Garki Local Government Area of the state to improve health and sanitation.
Alhaji Umar Amadu, the Acting Managing Director of the Agency, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Friday that the exercise was part of the agency’s waste evacuation and drainage clearance programme across the 27 local government areas of the state.
Amadu said the exercise included the collection of refuse from streets and markets, drainage clearance and cutting of grasses in female boarding schools in the area.
He added that the exercise was designed to clear waste and drains to enhance sanitation in major streets across the state.
The official explained that the agency is sensitising the people on the need to keep a clean environment and imbibe good sanitary habit, adding that government was effective environmental protection and waste management.
Amadu, therefore, called on the people to cooperate with the workers and desist from indiscriminate dumping of waste in residential areas and waterways.
This, he said, would improve hygiene and public health. (NAN)
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Edited by Shittu Obassa/Ismail Abdulaziz