The Governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 2019 elections in Oyo State, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao has called on the governor of the state, Engr Seyi Makinde to swing into action to clean up Ibadan because huge refuse and unauthorized dump sites have taken over many areas in the city.
Engr Hakeem Alao stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Friday by his media spokesman, Omotayo Iyanda.
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According to the statement, “It becomes imperative to echo the essence of cleaning up our society, more so, when Governor Makinde has refused to look at that direction lately by incapacitating the local government authorities and ignoring the stakeholders who have been calling for the removal of the filthy sites that have taken over the city.
Concerned stakeholders in the state have been calling on Governor Makinde over the last two, three weeks and neither the governor, his aides nor the agency in charge of waste management has practically done anything to reverse the sordid situation.
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“The local government authorities which ought to be saddled with the responsibility of waste management have been rendered incapacitated because the governor wants everybody to see him as a super hero.”
Hakeem Alao noted that heaps of refuse had piled up in places like “Mapo, Bere Oje, particularly along the medians on our highways as Sango-UI road, MKO Abiola Way, Akala-New Garage expressway, Arisekola Way and Orita-Challenge.
“Honestly, it is not only refuse that have taken over the city, also most drainages have been blocked by filths of all kinds.
The Asiwaju of Iroko, Chief Oyedele Hakeem Alao, said that it was common knowledge for everybody, let alone the governor of the state, to know the dire consequences of allowing refuse and other dirts to take over the human community.
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“Cholera and other transmittable diseases are associated with an unclean environment. So, not paying attention to or taking urgent action to clean up the filthy materials and remove other dangerous outgrowths that can jeopardize our people in our environment is the height of irresponsibilty,” Hakeem Alao emphasised.
He, however, enjoined the governor and other relevant state authorities “to rise up and clean up all the mess around the city and initiate a permanent waste management system that will permanently move all these ugly sights away from Ibadan.”
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