GOVERNOR
Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday in Effurun, Delta State took a swipe at the
lackadaisical attitude of Deltans to environmental sanitation, calling for a
total attitudinal change with a view to attaining a better healthy living.
A visibly angry Uduaghan particularly
expressed his displeasure at the popular Airport Junction where he officially
mounted a special environmental sanitation monitoring roadblock and apprehended
several violators.
The Governor wondered why people
should allow their surroundings to be filthy, warning them of the grave health
implication of dirtiness.
Uduaghan accompanied by few aides took
sanitation violators unaware as he drove himself and mounted road blocks at
different junctions querying the offenders’ reasons for not harkening to
stipulated laws on no movement on sanitation day.
A mild drama played out as one of the
violators, a power bike rider in a show of impunity glided towards the blocked
junction blaring sirens to the consternation of the Governor and his security
details who later found out that the offender was a motor mechanic.
The Governor who directed that car
keys of all offenders be seized to force compliance with the no movement order
for the specified period expressed disappointment with residents and violators
who stood by cheering his action.
He called for a change of attitude,
and that people should be responsible for the cleanliness of their areas.
“If you leave your areas dirty you will become
sick after sometime. Your attitude today is very bad, you litter your
surrounding with refuse and today being sanitation when you are supposed to be
seen cleaning your environment, you are here shouting and making noise. I am
very angry at what you all are doing”, he stated.
He called on medical personnel,
security officers and others who go to work on sanitation day to Endeavour to
get to their duty posts early, urging them to be law abiding and become role
models to others.
The Governor took time to drive round
Effurun and Warri axis in the monitoring exercise. (GVT P.R.)
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