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By: Murjanatu Abdullahi, Kaduna

On Jul 6, 2023

Science-climatologist from College of Health Science and Technology, and the Director African local weather reporters Comrade, Nurudden Bello has warned residents to as a matter of urgency cease indiscriminate littering the setting with stable waste, with a view to avert meals disasters and the unfold of water borne ailments in communities.

According to him this angle of throwing and dumping all type of trash and rubbish into the gutter has contributed immensely in the direction of  flood disasters and unfold of harmful infections and on the identical time, causes environmental air pollution and disasters.

He made the statements throughout an interactive part with stakeholders on stopping flood and different ecological challenges affecting native communities in Kaduna and a few Northern States of Nigeria.

Adding that, all fingers should be on deck to halt the unfold of flood catastrophe and different ecological challenges affecting people being, animals and different residing organism within the setting.

While known as on the residents to all the time hold their setting Clean and neat by lowering  flooding by means of evacuating trash and rubbish of their  gutters to protected their properties towards this 12 months flood and different ecological disasters.

Stressing additionally that, gutters are usually not meant for stable waste as a result of dumping stable waste in them provides room for flooding and such attitudes contribute in the direction of killings the aquatic animals and different species within the setting.

“Gutters are not meant for solid waste , and hence the need to halt dumping garbage and trash into them to save our aquatics and to avert water borne diseases “

 “Let’s be clean as citizens. Anytime we put rubbish where water passes then our gutters will be choked”

Let’s cease dumping trash into the gutter with a view to save aquatics animal’s towards going extinctions resulting from human irrational actions of dumping all type of trash and rubbish into the river and oceans

In the meantime, he pointed that his group goes to used social media to sensitise tens of millions of African youths on dangerous results of throwing plastic waste and polythene baggage into the river and oceans.

While calling on SEMA, NEMA, Red cross and different humanitarian NGOs to double up extra effort in the direction of educating most people on risks related to dumping hazardous chemical waste into gutters.

Olusola Akintonde