The Abia State government has vowed to establish mobile sanitation courts in markets and other important areas in the state to enforce compliance with the sanitation exercise.
Youths using state monthly environmental sanitation periods to play football on Abia streets had become a source of worry to Abia State Commissioner for Environment, Philemon Asonye Ogbonna.
Ogbonna spoke after August, 2024 edition of the state monthly environmental sanitation exercise, expressing his dismay that some youths were still seen in Umuahia streets playing football during environmental sanitation hours.
He warned parents and guardians to stop the football playing habits of their wards on the streets as the state government will not view it lightly and may apply necessary disciplinary measures on the youths when caught.
Asonye who also reacted to complaints by the Orie-Ugba Market Coordinator of the Abia State War Against Indiscipline, WAI Okwum Victor, said the Court when established, would be charged with the prosecution of sanitation defaulters in various markets and other places in the state and urged traders in the state to clean up their areas.
The Commissioner noted either excitement that the August edition of the environmental sanitation exercise recorded appreciable improvement when compared with the previous editions.
Over seventy sanitation defaulters were arrested and arraigned before the Sanitation Court in Umuahia during the exercise.
The clean-up exercise generally recorded a high level of compliance in most parts in Umuahia.
ALSO READ THESE TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
Petrol price 40% cheaper in Nigeria than Saudi Arabia doesn’t make sense — Dangote
