Yankwashi LG spends N.3m on monthly sanitation
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Sanitation
Abdullahi Shugaba
Dutse, Nov. 27 2017 (NAN) The Chairman, Yankwashi Local Government in Jigawa, Alhaji Dauda Dan Auwa, says the council is spending N300, 000 on monthly environmental sanitation in the area.
Dan Auwa disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Monday.
He explained that the money was being spent to keep the environment clean as well as on the purchase of mosquito repellents, insecticides and treatment of malaria patients.
He said the sanitation exercise was being conducted in collaboration with the people in various communities during which gutters and drains were being cleared.
“ Our sanitary Inspectors in collaboration with the people also check open defecation because open defecation.
“We should use the toilets in our houses, markets and motor parks, and the Sanitary Inspectors encourage people to use them, instead of defecating in the open
“It is necessary to keep our surroundings clean because dirty environment helps in the spread of communicable diseases as it habours mosquitoes which bite people and cause malaria.
“Dirty environment is also responsible for the spread of cholera, influenza and other communicable diseases,” the chairman said. (NAN)
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Edited by Abdullahi Yusuf