By Malish Valentine Adolfo-Torit
Some citizens in Torit town of Eastern Equatoria State are worried about poor hygiene in the State capital, saying it will lead to the spread of diseases.
Sections of residents in Torit town are still covered with grasses and some with crops planted around, this becomes a serious concern to the citizens, especially at this time when snakes are very common.
Iting Grace a resident of Malakia revealed that poor hygiene contributes to increases in diseases such as typhoid and malaria that risk the life of the citizens.
Iting is advising citizens who own empty plots to build on them or regularly clean them to avoid mosquitoes and snake
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“Is not good if people leave grass around their fence, because tall grass brings snakes and mosquitoes to our homes, we need to clear those grass out, if you have a plot and if you don’t want to build on it, you need to clean it so that it will not bring snake and mosquito in the area, it is not good if you’re cleaning your fence and leaving outside fence dirty, that is why we are suffering from malaria, especially in Torit here cases of malaria is too high and typhoid, let them clean there fence to make our hygiene clean ”
Whereas Joseph Ikang from the Iluhum residential area calls on area chiefs and the Municipality to charge people who are not maintaining hygiene in their homes with fines
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“Everybody in Torit municipality, in Askal, Iluhum, gumbo in hai matar, everyone should clean his home, everyone who not clean must be fine, area chefs and municipality should give by-laws, everybody who is not cleaned his compound must be fine, let them not leave that person, let them clean their homes, we need all our home to be clean”
On his part, Richard Otuba a resident of Hai Police advises the entire population of Torit to take the lead in maintaining hygiene in the town.
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“This thing which is happening is not good, we are supposed to have the spirit of hygiene, if our houses are clean our brine will be clean, we need to try to keep our environment clean, we need to slash grass around our fence short so that will not keep the snake, so we need to do so far at our community levels, it makes our state healthy at our community level, our environment is our responsibility”
The speakers made the statement to radio Emmanuel on Tuesday in Torit in an interview.