The time for monthly sanitation exercise in Aba, Umuahia, Abia State in general has been restored to 7:00 am by Governor Alex Otti.
A statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, CPS Kazie Uko, said the monthly exercise would “now hold between 7:00 am and 10:00 am”.
AbaCityBlog recalled that the immediate past Governor Okezie Ikpeazu had shifted the original time of the exercise from 7:00 am to 9:00 – 11:00 am – a pronouncement which attracted criticism even as Ikpeazu had at that time said that alteration was to enable Abians to stop being in an unnecessary hurry to beat the 7:am commencement time.
Meanwhile, the press statement said Governor Otti restored the original time of the exercise after a meeting with the Head, Task Force on Emergency Clean-up of Aba and Umuahia, Mr. Ogbonnia Okereke, who briefed him on the success recorded so far in the three-week-old assignment.
“the decision to bring forward the sanitation exercise was informed by the need to bring a larger number of the populace to participate in cleaning their environment early enough before they leave home for the day’s activities”, the governor was quoted to have said.
Otti commended the task force for the wonderful work it had done within the short period of time it was constituted and urged the team to engage landlords in both Aba and Umuahia; market leaders and all such organised groups for support in realising the objectives for which the task force was set up.
The Governor also directed the task force to expedite action on its plan to engage private sector participants (PSPs) in the cleaning exercise, in order to conclude the assignment in good time and restore the two cities to an acceptable hygienic condition.
