Bayelsa Stress Sanitation Habit Among Yenagoa Residents

A Deputy Director in Bayelsa State Ministry of Healthy, Mr. Ben Friday Eblitimi who is the controller Public Health has appealed to residents in the state to imbibe good sanitation habit by avoiding indiscriminate disposals of garbage and refuse.

Speaking to newsmen after the monthly sanitation of the premises of the Environmental Sanitation Authority along Lambert Eradiri Road Capital said building owners in the state should endeavour to provide toilet facilities in their residents so as to keep the surroundings tidy and to avoid littering of fasces around the environment.

The Director stressed that the health of one man is the health of all and one man being affected; all are affected, adding that everybody should be hygienic.

He advised youths through their parents to keep surroundings tidy on sanitation exercise and everyday clean-up of households, pointing out that they should not be found wanting playing football, skateboard exercise etc., at that hour which is used for cleaning up the surroundings of their homes.

He stated that the Public Health Department do go on weekly public enlightenment in the Yenagoa metropolis saying that the exercise has become irregular due to logistic problems and urged the state government to assist in that direction so that the people in the state will receive more enlightenment on how to keep their surroundings tidy.

Also speaking, the City Health Deputy Director, Mr. Gatigo Clarkson charged the state government to put more effort seeing that residents respect the monthly sanitation exercise.

Mr. Clarkson argued that if this is not done the battle for healthy living being preached would be lost, and the cost for epidemic diseases will increase.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Bayelsa state Environmental Sanitation Authority, Chief Reginald Dede warned contractors handling garbage disposals to be serious with their job otherwise their payment would be stopped.

Chief Dede said already some of the contractors have defaulted saying that among them were 150 females and 100 males attributing this to lull in sanitation exercise in the last three months because of political activities in the state that preceded the national and state elections.