Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Saturday announced cash reward amounting to N2.3 million to the three cleanest communities at the end of a special sanitation exercise.
Tambuwal spoke at the inauguration of the Special Sanitation Day to be observed for the next four Saturdays.
The ceremony was attended by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar; Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu; Speaker, State House of Assembly, Alhaji Sakihu Maidajii; and other dignitaries.
Tambuwal said the communities to clinch the first, second and third positions at the end of each exercise would get N1 million, N750, 000 and N500, 000 respectively.
He said: “From today up to the next four weeks, each Saturday would be observed as a special sanitation day and there will be restriction of movement between 7am and 10am.
“Subsequently, each first Saturday of the month would be observed as a sanitation day with similar restriction of movement.”
The governor explained that the action was aimed at ridding Sokoto city, its environs and the state of filth, which had taken it over.
Tambuwal said the exercise was re-introduced to restore the lost glory of Sokoto as the cleanest city in Nigeria and to keep diseases at bay.
“Cleanliness is next to godliness and we must have a paradigm shift and imbibe the habit of cleanliness and cleanliness is inseparable from faith,” the governor said.
Tambuwal appealed to the residents, youth groups and corporate organisations to complement the efforts of the state government in this direction.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment, Alhaji Garba Sarkin-Judu, commended Tambuwal for providing adequate logistics needed for the exercise.
NAN.
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