The Commissioner for Environment in Ogun state, Ola Oresanya, has urged all residents and guests to celebrate the yr’s Christmas and New Yr in a clear, healthy and protected environment.
He gave the cost on Wednesday, in a press release obtained by DAILY POST to mark the festive season.
Whereas wishing all Christians and all residents a Merry Christmas and a affluent 2026, Oresanya urged them to make cleanliness their watchword by cleansing their environment and storing their waste in lined containers for onward assortment by the Waste PSP Operators.
“All PSP Operators in the state have been mandated to work round the clock all through this festive interval to acquire wastes in their assigned areas for efficient waste administration particularly with anticipated enhance in waste technology from the celebration.
“Except for this, all authorities waste administration gear with environmental officers have been deployed to numerous elements of the state to complement the efforts of the PSP operators in this “Particular Finish -Of -The-Yr Duties” geared in the direction of sustaining clear environment statewide.
“So residents of the state and guests are subsequently assured of the federal government’s readiness to proceed to keep the clear environment, I urge our folks to play their half by cooperating with them for this operation” he added.
The commissioner additionally suggested merchants to conduct their companies in a clear, protected, and healthy ambiance, significantly throughout this time when a rise in buying and selling actions is anticipated in all markets and supermarkets, warning them to chorus from road buying and selling as environment marshalls can be on obligation to uphold peace and order in all public areas of the state.
Oresanya, nonetheless, warned “emergency merchants” who deal in livestock and different items and show them on roadsides, medians, in the cubicles of their vehicles, and in different public areas to cease and relocate to close by markets including that, the state authorities will other than seizing their items sentence them to neighborhood providers for destroying the aesthetic great thing about the state via their unlawful road buying and selling.
In the meantime, he urged drivers to drive fastidiously to stop pointless accidents throughout this festive season as a result of statewide road sweepers can be on obligation to maintain the state roads clear.
He additionally cautioned carnival organisers to keep away from blocking any state roads for his or her celebration, stressing that the state’s environmental legal guidelines prohibit blocking state roads for events and carnivals.
