The Government of Adamawa State says it will start house-to-house inspection of its monthly sanitation exercise to raise compliance levels.
This is coming as households largely ignore the monthly sanitation exercise slated for every last Saturday of the month.
Currently, government officials supervise compliance mostly at the levels of public buildings, streets and sewages, leaving households unchecked, thereby freeing most residents to just lie back in their houses and wait until 10am to go out for their usual business.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, James Iliya told newsmen at the end of the inspection of the exercise in Yola on Saturday that house-to-house monitoring has become necessary to raise compliance and improve hygiene of residents.
“People will be more serious by the time their houses are inspected. Government is serious about promoting a clean and healthy environment as well as reducing the risk of disease outbreaks,” the commissioner said.
The Executive Chairman of the Adamawa State Board of Internal Revenue, Hamma Adama Njabbari who joined other government officials to supervise the exercise Saturday morning, said 30 shops in Yola had so far been marked to be served notice to clean their vicinity.
Njabbari vowed that the notice would be issued immediately to the shop owners who would be required to either comply or face sanction.
Also speaking, the state Commissioner for Environment, Mohammed Sadiq Mohammed, said more mobile courts would be added to complement the existing ones in trying violators of the monthly exercise.
The government officials were led in the monitoring exercise by Deputy Governor Kaletapwa Farauta who visited the state and federal secretariat complexes on Jimeta-Yola road as well as some other strategic places in the state capital.
