Kano State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has embarked on larvicidal fumigation against mosquitoes in the metropolis.
Leading the exercise on Tuesday in Kano, the Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Nasiru Garo, said that the exercise would bring an end to the breeding of mosquitoes and other insects in the metropolitan areas.
Larvicide treatment of breeding habitats helps to reduce the adult mosquito population.
It involves the direct application of liquid larvicide products, a type of insecticide used to control mosquitoes indoors and outdoors to water, using backpack sprayers and truck or aircraft-mounted sprayers.
Represented by the ministry’s Director, Pollution Control, Abba Takai, the commissioner said that the fumigation targets are ponds, refuse collection centres, refuse disposal sites and other stagnant drains in the metropolitan areas.
The commissioner said that the “government is passionate about the wellbeing of the teeming populace by way of safeguarding the environment to look habitable and healthy.”
He commended Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf “for identifying with the yearnings and aspirations of the people by providing an enabling environment, and for overall development.”
Garo urged the people of Kano to reciprocate the gesture through regular sanitation and maintaining clean homes and the environment.
The commissioner also urged residents to dump their waste at designated places provided by the government, and not to block the drains, especially during the rainy season.
NAN
