The new government of the state was responding to this newspaper’s stories highlighting the unwholesomeness of the city.
environment around the newly constructed bridge in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba, less than 72 hours after his inauguration, the governor of the Taraba State, Kefas Agbu, has hired some youths and women to clean the city.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the flyover and the surrounding bridge were littered with broken bottles, used plastic, dirty nylons, and rags.The cleaners, primarily young ladies and women, who carried their brooms, sang as they swept the street. The state capital has a perennial sanitation problem. Many areas in the city are pervaded by poor hygiene and offensive smell.
Mr Okoro said due to an absence of designated areas for dumping of refuse; residents were forced to dump the garbage along roadsides and into drainages, thereby blocking the free flow of water, sometimes resulting in flooding, particularly during the rainy season.A resident of Mayo Dassa, who gave her name as Baby Luka, commended the governor. She, however, raised concerns about the lack of disposal bins.
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