The Adamawa State Government has announced plans to initiate house-to-house inspections during its monthly sanitation exercise to increase compliance among residents.
Government officials focus primarily on public buildings, streets, and sewage systems, leaving residential areas largely unchecked. This lack of oversight has allowed many residents to remain idle in their homes until the exercise ends at 10 a.m., after which they resume their usual activities.
State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, James Iliya, emphasized the need for more stringent monitoring to improve hygiene standards across the state. “People will be more serious by the time their houses are inspected. Government is serious about promoting a clean and healthy environment as well as reducing the risk of disease outbreaks,” he stated.
Hamma Adama Njabbari, Executive Chairman of the Adamawa State Board of Internal Revenue, joined other officials in supervising the exercise and revealed that 30 shops in Yola have already been marked for notice to clean their surroundings. Njabbari warned that shop owners would be required to comply with the sanitation directives or face sanctions.
State Commissioner for Environment, Mohammed Sadiq Mohammed, added that additional mobile courts would be deployed to enforce the sanitation rules more effectively. The Deputy Governor, Kaletapwa Farauta, led the inspection team, visiting key locations including the state and federal secretariat complexes on Jimeta-Yola Road and other strategic areas in the capital.
