The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has reminded residents to settle their sanitation bills through a designated bank to avoid being fleeced.
Acting Director of the board, Mrs Aishat Adebayo, gave the reminder while launching the special clean-up day organised by the board in collaboration with some Abuja-based construction companies.
“ I want to appeal to Abuja residents that there is nothing like cash transaction in AEPB if you are paying your bill.
“There is a designated bank listed on the bill where you can pay.
“If you pay to these impostors, by the time we come for enforcement, we will ask you to go and pay in the bank.
“In the interest of the public, we don’t send people to collect money on our behalf and anybody who pays to these impostors, does it at his or her own risk.”
Adebayo, however, said that the board embarked on the clean-up exercise to complement the efforts of its contractors as well as the city inhabitants in ensuring that the city remains clean.
She explained that the partnership with the construction companies would guarantee constant supply of equipment for waste movement and disposal.
“The construction companies are doing this with us as part of their corporate social responsibility” Adebayo said, noting however, that hawkers constituted a challenge to the cleanliness of the city.
She said there were plans to provide alternative platforms for the hawkers to sell.