By Aisha Ahmed
Kano – Kano State Government has lauded residents for increased level of participation in the monthly environmental sanitation exercise.
The government noted that the increased awareness and compliance by residents resulted in the low figure of offenders recorded during today’s exercise.
The Commissioner for Environment, Dr Ali Makoda, who gave the commendation, announced that only 65 offenders were arrested compared to previous months which recorded higher figures.
“The residents have increased their level of participation in the exercise in view of the limited number of defaulters recorded in February.
“About 65 offenders were arrested and fined by the State’s Sanitation Court,” he said.
Government, he said, was not interested in high number of defaulters, rather it wanted to instill the sanitation culture in the residents.
Makoda called on communities to call the attention of the Ministry or the Refuse Management and Sanitation Board to areas where heaps of refuse had not been cleared.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offenders were fines various sums of money by the Sanitation Mobile Court.
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