Env. San: Parliamentary Extension Abattoir, Calabar Receives Cash Award For High Sanitation Compliance.

 Hannah ARIKPO 

  Parliamentary Extension Abattoir located in the Calabar metropolis has received a cash award for high compliance during the September 2025 statewide monthly sanitation exercise 

 Speaking in an interview, Cross River Commissioner for Environment and Leader of the Sanitation monitoring team, Obol Moses Osogi, explained that the gesture was in appreciation for a job well done and to encourage the abattoir workers to sustain the tempo.

 "I was excited to see the Abattoir so clean and many people were busy working under the rains. I present the cash prize out of appreciation for a job well done, this is what I expect from every other person. We have visited the Abattoir several times and made several arrest due to non- compliance" Osogi explained.

 He noted that the state government is taking proactive measures to tackle the problem of blocked drainages through awareness, provision of septic bins at every point among others warning that dumping of waste in drainages while disposing waste at the wrong time is an offence punishable by law.

 The Environment boss advised residents to always desilt their gutters, avoid building along drainage channels as well as dispose waste at the proper time adding that many have been prosecuted for defaulting in sanitation rules especially scavengers.

 At Akamkpa, the compliance level was low, and over twenty trucks were impounded

 The SSA to the Cross River Governor, Hon. Magnus Ntui, decried the low response towards the state monthly sanitation exercise emphasizing the sanitation exercise is not restricted to the state capital alone as it cuts across the eighteen local government areas of the state.

 Over seventy defaulters were prosecuted at the state mobile sanitation court in Calabar.