MAIDUGURI IS POLLUTED….

By Faiza jibrin

Pollution being seen as unhygienic and improper condition has been the basic and tremendous issue affecting most of the streets in Maiduguri, which causes a lot of challenges in human life in the city.

Among the places in the city, they were almost dominated by this brash behavior among the people living in that area. A person will dispose of a waste products in such a place that they do not suppose to dumb. Having looking at the situation of many places around the city places like Dala, Baga road, Shuwari I & II, London ciki, Gwange, Gomari, and Bolori area among others are mostly large streets that have sub streets within them likely to be the most polluted environment in Maiduguri.

Therefore, those above mentioned places around the city would have seen as unhygienic environment, due to the sense that in terms of large population, diverse believe, different sort of people with different perception will cause a lot of healthy attack with such situations, especially during the rainy season that is approaching to stand. After looking thoroughly to those places found that many of the people in those area have lack of awareness, environmental bodies, and Governmental agencies, though there are Borno State Environmental Pollution Agency (BOSEPA) who work all days to ensure the neatness and cleanliness of all places, among the place like Dala some people even spoke on the issue.

In an interview with an anonymous leader, she state that; environmental pollution such as air pollution is one of the most harmful effect which leads to illnesses in Maiduguri, such diseases include cholera through contaminated water, polluting the air through dumping of refuge in the wrong places like drainage, and defecating along side the road which are usually done by the almajiri’s and does who still find it hard to construct a toilet in their various home. Furthermore, she buttressed that environmental pollution does not only affect human life but also government social amenities include erosion, road damage, drainage blockage, filled gutters among others.

there are many ways and precautions to follow to avoid such things in the society which include taking effective decision and law enforcement by the government and then taking part in responsible for the cleanliness of their environment everywhere in Maiduguri by the societal membership for not dispose refuge, defecation, and also to ensure that practitioners dealing are responsible for such aspect, execute their duty properly by doing surveying, monitoring, sanitations, and conducting conferences and workshops to enlighten the public on the harmful effect of environmental pollution.

By such situations many people also talk on that matter and express their views towards their situation and unhealthy condition they’re with their younger ones, which they states that cholera will keep on disturbing their if they don’t stop dumping waste management into improper disposal.

I urge the government agencies on environment maintenance and management to highly look into consideration and put more efforts by ensuring they work perfectly and thoroughly with the issue and bring some Professional Doctors on environment for their healthy and safety measures in the state at large as this has to do with health matters and may likely to kill.