The Kano state government has said that it would soon pay the outstanding debt owed by street sweepers for months due to non-payment of their allowance by immediate past administration in the state.
The state commissioner for environment and climate change Alhaji Nasiru Sule Garo disclosed this while briefing journalists shortly after conclusion of Saturday monthly environmental sanitation exercise held in Kano.
GLOBAL TRACKER recalled that the street sweepers had recently protest non-payment of their entitlement by the Kano state refuse management and sanitation board (REMASAB), accusing the managing director of the board of showing nonchalant attitude and stagnating the process of payment.
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However, asked about defaulting the payment of sweepers, the commissioner assured that the executive governor of Kano state Alhaji Abba Kabiru Yusuf has ordered for sorting out all issues within shortest possible time.
“Sens the inception of the present administration of Alhaji Abba Kabiru Yusuf, he has instructed us to look into the issue of Street sweepers, and when we took over, the sweepers owed two or three months without payment, and we went out to verified those that are participating in the street swiping and we have done that and submitted our report, but along the line their was misunderstanding from the REMASAB, they went ahead to pay some people their money while others not,” said Nasiru Garo.
“Haven another complaint that some people have not received their money, his excellency has given us another go ahead to look into the issue of those that have been verified and have not been paid, and we already started it and we are collecting their Data, and I am telling you whoever is verified and have not received his money should come to the ministry to submit his details and insha Allah very soon they will receive their money,” said the commissioner.
Meanwhile, Nasiru has said that the ministry would invite the management of Abattoir located in Dala local government area to strategies on how Boucher’s will not only stop operation during exercise but participate fully.
The commissioner also called on parents to stop their children from playing football during monthly environmental sanitation, saying the time is dedicated for cleanses of people’s domain and clearance of drainages adding anybody found wanting will be sanctions appropriately.
During the exercise, the mobile court attached to the central sanitation committee arrested 45 defaulters and fined them the sum of 75,500 Naira.