The Mobile court attached to Kano state central sanitation committee at the state ministry of environment and climate change has fined Bachirawa Abattoir in Ungogo local government area the sum of three hundred thousand Naira for failure to sanitized their slaughter house.
Magistrate Auwal Yusuf Suleiman who give the order said the butchers was found to be operating in an unhygienic environment, a situation that may threatened public health.
The Court also ordered the management of the abattoir to pay the sum of three hundred thousand Naira as fine for noncompliance to sanitation law and monthly environmental sanitation exercise.
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“The abattoir were found operating in an unhygienic environment, no water which is key to clear the blood stained as this may course threats to public health because if people consumed this type of meat perhaps may be dangerous to his health,” the Court said.
Meanwhile, the court has also fine Bachirawa Onion Market the sum of two hundred thousand Naira for failing to honor and present themselves to the market despite letter of visitation sent to them and acknowledged by their management.
The court said one hundred thousand Naira (100,000) fine was imposed on them for failing to show off during the visitation, while another hundred thousand Naira (100,000) for finding the market in an unhygienic state.
Also, the court directed that an invitation order should be served to the management of the Onion market to present themselves to court and explain why none of the management show off during the committee’s visit.
In the same vein, the state commissioner for environment and climate change Alhaji Nasiru Sule Garo has urged people in the state to complement government efforts in sanitizing their environment and to ensure total clearance and desilting of all their drainages as heavy rainfall is expected in the currently raining season.
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Nasiru Garo represented by permanent secretary of the ministry Mahmoud Bello Bari urged the management of Waziri Shehu Gidado general hospital to ensure professionalism in their activities especially while interacting with patients and ways of handling medical waste.
Bari said environment ministry would officially write to the management of the hospital on the mismanagement of medical waste, environmental sanitation as well as ways of interacting with patients.
The commissioner added that the state government has setup ministerial committee on proper clearance of major and minor drainages in the state.