Anambra Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise Holds

Ndi Anambra have been encouraged to be taking active part in the environmental cleanup exercises in the state to help make Anambra neater and healthier.The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Mr. Chido Obidiegwu  made the call shortly after inspecting some parts of the state  to ascertain the people’s compliance with this month’s sanitation exercise.

Correspond Emmanuel Okonkwo reports that  places monitored during the exercise by the SSA acompanied  by  teams from the state Ministry of Environment, Anambra State Waste Management Agency, ASWAMA, Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade, and officials of the Environmental Health Services, were Aroma junction Awka, Amawbia junction, Nitel junction Nnewi, Nnewi

Roundabout, through Owerri Road Onitsha, to Ogbo-Okuko Ochanja  Market.  Apart from Nnewi and environs where the exercise recorded high compliance, Awka and Onitsha residents did not participate, as many shops were seen open and high vehicular movement witnessed in the areas.Mr. Obidigwe who frowned at the attitude of some residents who fail to participate in the sanitation exercise which according to him aims at ensuring a more hygienic environment for the people, called on Ndi Anambra to always take issues that concern cleanliness seriously, and reminded them that the Anambra state Ministry of Environment is now out to take stiffer measures to enforce compliance to the exercise in the stateOn her part, the Director, Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Ministry of Health, Mrs. Edith Ike disclosed that officials from the state Ministry of Environment will commence household monitoring exercise by Monday during which they will identify environmental laws defaulters and punish them accordingly to serve as deterrent to others.In their reactions,  the Director Environmental Health Services Onitsha North, Mrs. Elizabeth Ezeiru and the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Mrs. Njideka Oraedu while expressing dissatisfaction  with  the attitude of traders at the Ogbo-Okuko axis of Ochanja Market, reminded Ndi Anambra that what is involved is their health and should not be joked with, stressing that health is wealth.    Today’s sanitation marked the first after the launching of the “Dobe Anambra Ocha” environmental campaign by the state Ministry of Environment.