By Kenneth Obieh
Oshimili South Local Government Council has promised to partner groups that could support to keep the environment clean in promoting healthy living among the people.
The Head of Department (HOD) of Environment in the Council, Mr. Eugene Oshilim stated this when members of the State Advocacy Team implementing the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) Community Systems Strengthening towards Resilient & Sustainable Systems for Health (CSS-RSSH) System visited his office.
Oshilim revealed that the council was always on ground during monthly environmental sanitation and set up mobile courts that seat twice every two weeks to punish offenders who sit at home during the stipulated sanitation period or violate other environmental laws.
He pointed out that the council regularly desilt drainages in the various wards in the areas and also challenged officers to be proactive in checkmating environmental sanitation defaulters.
The HOD thanked civil society for the work they had done in helping the government to eradicate diseases from the area and assured of the council’s support and contributions to create a healthy environment.
During the interaction, the environmental officer said that there had been several sensitisation activities in the media through jingles and programs to enlighten people in Asaba and its environs on the need to make the environment clean for visitors and residents.
Earlier, the state Coordinator of Tuberculosis, Mr. Miracle Onyeukwu, thanked the council authorities for steps undertaken to reduce diseases and sickness from the communities in the local government area.
Onyeukwu said that there was a need for the council to do more in respect of open defecation, disposing of waste, blockage of drainage and other challenges that could breed diseases in the communities.
He said that the visit was to create a synergy with the government to internalise an environmentally-friendly society with the people.
In their separate remark, Pastor Greg Sifo, the state Chairman of the Civil Society on Malaria, Immunisation and Nutrition and the state Program Officer, Miss Juliet Obiajulu also spoke on the need for the partnership for the good of the society.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
