Nigeria: Flooding - Kano Warns Against Drainage Blocking
Abdulsalam Muhammad, AllAfrica.com, 15 May 2009
Kano state Government has called on residents in the state to guard against the indiscriminate dumping of refuse on the drainage pathways.
The commissioner in charge of Project Monito-ring, Alhaji Ibrahim Garba gave the advice while on inspection visit to Mandawa-ri area of the city. He explained that such kind of attitude posed health hazard to society.
Alhaji Ibrahim Garba stated that Kano State Government is making frantic efforts toward solving the perennial problem of flooding in the city and its environ, adding that every residents is expected to play a role in checking the menace.
The Commissioner decried indiscriminate dumping of refuse which in the end blocks drainage and culverts leading to devastating flooding each year. He called on city dwellers to imbibe the attitude of cleanliness.
Garba also called on the citizens to show concern on government activities by monitoring the execution of any project sited in their community with the view of achieving the best for the people.
Speaking earlier, the ward head of Mandawari, Zannuni Mohammed Lawan, called on the state government to provide refuse dump site in the area to check improper disposal of waste.
Lawan said that residents of the area resort to indiscriminate disposal of their domestic waste due to lack of an appropriate dumping site.
He, however, commended the state government for taking concrete measures toward solving the perennial flooding problem in the area which poses danger to their lives and property each year.
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