Taskforce On Environment Monitors Compliance On Weekly Sanitation Across Delta

Taskforce On Environment Monitors Compliance On Weekly Sanitation Across Delta

As part of the Delta State government effort to ensure clean and hygienically friendly environment for all Deltans, the Delta State Taskforce on Environment yesterday, monitors the compulsory weekly sanitation exercise at Igbudu and Ogbe-ljoh markets in Warri South Local Government Area of the state in order to ensure strict compliance by all traders in the market.

The exercise which commenced at about 7am on Thursday morning and lasted for three hours, recorded a huge success as market women massively turned out to clean up the drainage systems and evacuate waste within and around their shop premises.

Despite the mass turn out, some stubborn traders refused to come out for the exercise in which their shops were sealed up and the  disobedient ones among them fined.

In his reaction, the state Chairman of Taskforce, Hon. Sylvester Oromoni expressed satisfaction for the massive compliance by traders at both market, noting that the weekly market sanitation exercise was to ensure cleanliness and hygienically safe environment for both traders and customers.

Hon. Oromoni stated that as it was raining consistently, it was important to clear our drainage systems, especially the nearby canals at market places in order to ensure free flow of water. "That is the only way we can survive the looming flood that is fast approaching", he posited. 

He therefore, charged the market women to sustain the good work, stressing that Governor lfeanyi Okowa led government meant well for traders across the state.

However, the lgbudu market women and traders had appealed to the Delta state government to help evacuate the heap of refuse dumped at the canal in the market, stressing that the refuse had blocked the canal, thereby causing flood challenge within the market and environs.