Ahmed Satomi, a member of the House of Representatives and Hon. Abba Kyari, a member of the Borno State House of Assembly, representing Jere local government area on Monday, led 150 youth volunteers and stakeholders to fumigate and disinfect the communities against waterborne diseases.
It will be recalled that flooding ravaged Maiduguri and Jere cities, destroying 70 percent of public and government critical infrastructures such as schools, hospitals, markets, roads, and bridges.
They began the fumigation along Gongulong-Madinatul and State Low cost Housing estate, and is expected to last for five days.
While unveiling the Volunteer Marshals at Progressives Office Complex, Satomi said: “In line with our mandate, I have teamed up with Hon. Abba Kyari, a member representing Jere at the Borno State House of Assembly, stakeholders and 150 youth volunteers to complement efforts of the state government under the leadership of Governor Babagana Zulum in disinfecting contaminated communities as water recedes.
“We’ve liaised with Borno State Environmental Agency (BOSEPA) and discovered some gaps. For example, heavy trucks and vehicles cannot access some areas or streets, so it has become incumbent on us to walk into those areas to fumigate and disinfect these communities with chlorine, details, and other chemicals.
“It is a volunteer work to augment the state government’s efforts. The Marshalls are well trained and kitted to go into the nook and crannies of the entire community to disinfect them as we will also give them some stipends at the end of the exercise.
“We would cover three wards of Mashamari, Old Maiduguri, Maimashari, and Galtamari, and it would be extended to other parts of Jere,” Satomi said.
Also addressing the 150 Marshals, Hon. Kyari commended them for the sacrifices, stressing that the exercise, which would last for five days, would be from dusk to dawn to eradicate mosquitoes and make habitable homes ready for owners to relocate.
He advised them to be law abiding and always be good ambassadors in the communities affected, as there are possibilities that some aggrieved residents may not cooperate well due to the traumatic experience of the flood disaster.
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