No fewer than 500 youths have been employed by the Sokoto State Government for refuse evacuation, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Aminu Dodo-Iya, announced yesterday.
Speaking at the end of the monthly environmental sanitation in Sokoto, Dodo-Iya said the youths have since been redeployed and swung into action.
‘These youths will continuously operate to rid the city and its environs of filth. They will be used for daily clearance and evacuation of refuse in the city,” he said.
Dodo-Iya also said the state government has purchased 30 specialised refuse evacuation tricycles.
He explained that the tricycles were being deployed in hard-to-reach areas of the city.
The permanent secretary decried the non-challant attitude of the residents toward the exercise, adding that the state government might be forced to wield the big stick, using the tribunals.