Ogun to collaborate with Local Councils, CDAs for effective environmental sanitation

Gov Dapo Abiodun

Ogun State government has said it will henceforth collaborate with Local Government Councils and Community Development Associations on effective environmental sanitation across the state.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Mr Ola Oresanya stated this when he led a team of environmental sanitation officials to Abeokuta North and Abeokuta South Local Governments to monitor the monthly Ogun State Environmental Sanitation Exercise.

Great Achiever Magazine reports that Oresanya said since the local government councils are the first responder on environmental and sanitation issues, there is the need for better collaboration with them and various community development associations who are directly under them for a better, clean, safe and healthy environment.

He therefore called on them to cooperate with the state government so that together they will usher in a new culture of cleanliness throughout the length and breath of the state for a more egalitarian society.

Inspecting the Agbajoowo Community in Elega-Idofin CDA, the Special Adviser advised their leaders on the need to ensure proper cleaning and disposal of their waste and directed the waste Private Service Provider PSP assigned to the community to be more effective.

Also speaking after the monitoring exercise, the Chairman of Abeokuta North Local Government, Hon Adebayo Ayorinde praised the new collaboration between the state and local government areas on environmental issues saying that it will rub off on the well-being of the people and cleanliness of the state.

In the monitoring team are local government officials, state government top environmental officials and environmental health officers from the local government areas.