…..nabbed as ODSWMA GM hails residents over compliance
The General Manager, Ondo State Waste Management Authority (ODSWMA), Reverend (Mrs) Ayo Adeyemo, has applauded the residents for their full compliance with today’s environmental sanitation excise.
Adeyemo who led other top officials of the Authority to monitor the August edition of the monthly environmental sanitation excise within Akure metropolis, commended the poeple for keying into the exercise.
She, however, disclosed that 38 poeple were arrested during the exercise for various sanitation offences, saying those arrested were charged to court for appropriate punishment.
The GM equally encouraged the residents to sustain habits of cleanliness and make it a daily affair to ward off any form of diseases. She also appealed to the people not to dump their waste in drainage system and canal to avoid flooding.
Adeyemo who advised all residents to keep to sanitation rules and regulations, further charged them to always keep their waste in bins for easy evacuation.
In all the areas visited, residents defiled early morning light showers, and were seeing cleaning and clearing their environment.
“Today’s exercise is a good one, the city is relatively clean. People kept their environment clean and we are very happy. Even the evacuators were all evacuating.
“So, everything went well. I will only encourage the good poeple of Ondo State to sustain the habit of cleanliness to ward off any form of diseases which dirty environment can cause.
“It is how we treat our environment that the environment with treat us. So we must treat our environment well to ensure healthy living.
“Our ‘Talk and Do’ Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is doing his best to improve the heath status of the poeple of Ondo State, so we citizens must continue to support him in every area by contributing our own quotas for the betterment of our environment.
“It is when we are in good health we can go to work, it is when we are in sound health we can say we want to do this or achieve that. So, let us be hygienic by regularly cleaning our homes and our surroundings. Health is wealth.
“And like I always say, keep your waste in a prescribed bin and wait for the evacuator to evacuate. And I always encourage our evacuators to do the evacuation promptly and effectively so that waste kept in bins will not spill over.
“Also, this is rainy season, it even rained during the exercise and that is why I wore my shower cap. I want to advise the good people of our State not to dump their waste in drainage system and canal because they will be blocked, and this will lead to flooding.
“So, to avert flooding let all of us keep to sanitation rules and regulations”, she stressed
