{"id":4747,"date":"2017-05-29T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/cross-river-renames-green-police-set-to-prosecute-environmental-offenders\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T03:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T03:35:09","slug":"cross-river-renames-green-police-set-to-prosecute-environmental-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/cross-river-renames-green-police-set-to-prosecute-environmental-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross River renames Green Police, set to prosecute  environmental offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_199780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-600x338.jpg 600w\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199780\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ben-Ayade-1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Faced with stiff opposition from law enforcement officers on the introduction of environmental guards, Cross River State Government has renamed the state\u2019s non-armed bearing outfit, the Green Police to Green Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ben Ayade also urged residents of the state to ensure cleanliness and sustain greenery initiative or face prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Ayade noted that the new outfit \u201cGreen Sheriff\u201d must serve as an environmental neighborhood watch by ensuring that every resident of the state and Calabar in particular keeps his or her environment very clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that \u201cthe Green Sheriff\u2019s responsibilities will include general sanitation check, nursing and planting of trees, ensuring that refuse bins are evacuated as and when due, report erring wastes evacuation contractors as well as arrest persons who litter the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other roles the governor enumerated were to stop deforestation, afforestation supervision while ensuring that irrigation contractors water all trees.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cCross River is the cleanest state in Nigeria and unarguably the tourism destination of the country, it is imperative that the cleanliness needs to be sustained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing this, my administration has made it very clear that we will have zero tolerance for an untidy environment as we lay emphasis on cleanliness, knowing full well that cleanliness is next to Godliness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, those who own property in Calabar must keep their environment tidy and \u201cif you are seen littering or dropping sweet wrapper, you will be picked up by Green Sheriff. So ensure that there is no littering as the greenery of Calabar must be sustained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor who disclosed that Calabar has been divided into 39 segments with contractors attached to sustain the environmental policy, posited that \u201cwe must maintain that dignity, image, class and elegance that Calabar is indeed the cleanest city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/cross-river-renames-green-police-set-to-prosecute-environmental-offenders\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade Faced with stiff opposition from law enforcement officers on &hellip; <a title=\"Cross River renames Green Police, set to prosecute  environmental offenders\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/cross-river-renames-green-police-set-to-prosecute-environmental-offenders\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cross River renames Green Police, set to prosecute  environmental offenders<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[15258,522,41,15282],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-indeed","tag-nigeria","tag-property","tag-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ben-Ayade-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6063,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/environews-others-to-get-awards\/","url_meta":{"origin":4747,"position":0},"title":"EnviroNews, others to get awards","author":"Amazing Property","date":"September 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Goni Ahmed, Director-General of the Great Green Wall Agency An online environment and development magazine, EnviroNews Nigeria, along with several others organisations and individuals, will be honoured during the 8th Environment Outreach Magazine Public Lecture and Environment Awards ceremony in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. 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