Growing up in Kaduna, pollution wasnāt just something I had heard about on the news it was always right in front of me, every single day, i remember seeing the gutters being always full of plastic and dirt after it had rained, those drains were meant to carry water away, but instead they turned into smelly and also stagnant pools because they were so much choked up with waste, Then as kids, we usually used to pinch our noses as we walked past those places ,but eventually, it became such a normal sight that many people have stopped caring.
Then during the dry season, everything was always dusty the kind of dust that would get stucked to your clothes, your skin, your eyes, even your throat. It always felt like you were breathing in tiny grains of dirt with every inhale you took, Then the rains would come, and you will think it would wash everything clean, but it only made things worse, the water will not even flow properly because the drains that are blocked, so the roads were always flooded, I remember wading through knee-high, muddy water just to get home from school, watching trash swim around me.
But one thing that really scares me about pollution is the air pollution, I think that it is the worst kind because you can not always see it, but you feel it in your lungs, In Kaduna, thereās so much burning of refuse. People light fires to get rid of waste because thereās no regular collection. The black smoke rises and mixes with the harmattan dust, and before you know it, youāre coughing for days. I remember days when my chest felt tight, and everyone just blamed it on weather instead of realising we were all breathing in poison.
It frustrates me how weāve learned to adapt instead of fix the problem. We know the gutters are blocked but keep throwing things in. We burn trash because thereās no proper disposal system. It feels like the government isnāt doing enough, but honestly, we as individuals also need to change.
I think to end pollution, it has to be everyoneās job. Local authorities should provide bins in busy places and make sure waste is collected on time. There should be real consequences for dumping in drains. Schools need to teach kids not just that pollution is bad, but how their small actions add up. Imagine if everyone in Kaduna decided to stop dumping plastic in the drains how quickly things would change.
My hope is simple: I want a Kaduna where kids can walk home without wading through dirty floodwater. Where the air doesnāt make you cough. Where the gutters flow clean after rain. I know itās possible. But it has to start with us deciding enough is enough.
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The changes starts from the citizens.many people have no idea of about the damage pollution can cause,that's why they live in a polluted area comfortably
That is were initiative from person like me and you come in. Educate from primary school to higher institutions
Air pollution has the highest rate because it is not visible but destroys from inside.
It's like cancer.
It kills slowly.
Thanks. Appreciate š„°š„°
Adapting to such conditions is very dangerous but that's what we do everyday. It's a big risk on our health and needs to be taken seriously.
Tackling it really is everyone's job if not, we will not achieve a clean environment.
You are right, if we all don't tackle it, it will always be there
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I have also had the chance to witness water pollution but then as for air pollution i also think it's the worst of them all because of the risk that comes with it but then i do think it would be hard to put a stop to it.
It will be hard. But we can only try in our little way to try and put a stop