The Kano state government says it would invite the management of Sabon Gari Market in the Fagge local government area to explain why some people around the market were found to be operating during monthly environmental sanitation.
The state commissioner for Environment and Climate Change Alhaji Nasiru Sule Garo disclosed this while briefing journalists after the end of the monthly sanitation exercise on Saturday.
According to him, the tricycle riders and chicken market besides Sabon Gari have been the main defaults during the exercise and appropriate actions have been taken to avert it from happening again.
“This monthly environmental sanitation exercise is a policy of state government for long periods, we are happy with what we have seen today, people are complying with the government directives, but we are not happy with tricycle riders because they are the main defaulters in today’s exercise, as you know we are working with mobile court and we have stopped so many of them and the court has sanctioned them appropriately and I am telling you this government would not hesitate to deal with anybody who violated government directives,” said Garo.
“Another defaulter today is the chicken market by the side of Sabon Gari market, they were found to be operating during the exercise, so the mobile court immediately ordered the arrest of some marketers and we were compelled to invite the management of the market to explain to us was some markets members were found to be operating during this hours,” added the commissioner.
Nasiru Garo then warned traders anywhere in the state to desist from opening their shops during the exercise saying body found wanting would be dealt with.
During the exercise, the mobile Court arrested fifty-six 56 defaulters and fined them the sum of two hundred thousand Naira (200,000.00).