From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Climatologist Comrade Nurudden Hello has expressed dismay over indiscriminate littering the environment with solid waste, saying such action if not check can lead flood and the spread of water borne diseases in communities.
Comrade Nurudden Bello, who is Director, African climate reporters expressed this during an interactive section with stakeholders on preventing flooding and other ecological challenges affecting local communities in Kaduna and some Northern States of Nigeria, held yesterday.
According to him the attitude of throwing and dumping trash and garbage into the gutter contributed immensely towards flood and the spread of dangerous infections, and causes environmental pollution and disasters.
The Climatologist opined that all hands must be on deck to halt spread of flood and other ecological challenges affecting human animals and other living organism in the environment.
He advised citizens to always keep their environment Clean and neat by reducing flooding through evacuating trash and garbage in their gutters to save their homes against this year flood and other ecological disasters.
He stressed that gutters are not meant for solid waste because dumping solid waste in them gives room for flooding.
“Gutters are not meant for solid waste, and hence the need to halt dumping garbage and trash into them to save our aquatics and to avert water borne diseases.
“Let’s be clean as citizens. When we put rubbish where water passes, then our gutters will be choked.
“Let’s stop dumping trash into the gutter in order to save aquatics animal’s against going extinctions due to human irrational activities of dumping all sorts of trash and garbage into the river and oceans.
In the meantime, he pointed that his organization is going to use social media sensitive millions of African youths on the harmful effects of throwing plastic waste and polythene bags into the river and oceans.
He called on SEMA, NEMA, Red cross and other humanitarian NGOs to double more effort towards educating the general public on the dangers associated with dumping hazardous chemical waste into gutters.
