BAUCHI – The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) says it has 160 street cleaners on its payroll.
Alhaji Waziri Jalam, the Permanent Secretary of the Agency, said this on Monday in Bauchi while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Jalam explained that the cleaners were manning various streets within Bauchi Metropolis and other strategic locations in the state.
He further explained that the cleaners were recruited under the agency’s ‘operation keep the town clean scheme’.
Jalam said that some local governments in the state had also engaged some cleaners to complement the efforts being made by the agency.
He said that their engagement became necessary when the state government re-introduced its monthly environmental sanitation to curb communicable diseases being recorded.
Jalam said that the agency had 27 refuge disposal trucks while it set up 80 refuse collection bins within Bauchi Metropolis and other locations.
He said that the agency had also set up Sanitation Environmental Mobile Courts to prosecute defaulters who refused to clean their environment.
Jalam said that the agency had also introduced routine environmental programme through inspection by officials of the agency where defaulters were being prosecuted by the mobile court.
He said that the agency had constructed seven units of VIP Toilets in various locations within Bauchi Metropolis to curb the menace of public defecation.
Jalam said that some non-governmental organisations and community based organisations as well as private organisations and individuals had constructed some toilets to boost efforts of the agency.
“It has improved the quality of lives of the people as hospitals’ records have revealed that the number of patients attending various health facilities had dropped.
“More people have become enlightened and now fully participating in routine sanitation in spite of the monthly exercise,” he added. (NAN)
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