Mayor of Amman, Omar Al Maani, requested the directors of districts and concerned departments at Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) to be careful and pay serious attention to the cleanliness of the public plazas, mosques, cemeteries, and public parking lots during the holiday of Eid Al Adha (Immolation Feast).
Al Maani stressed, in his circulation issued on the occasion, the importance of regulating shifts for cadres of GAM districts, who cover the working hours, and requested the number of workers and drivers of waste compressor and containers vehicles of the evening and night shifts be increased; this should help in maintaining work momentum which is meant to handle any emergency.
The circulation clarified that the working hours of environment and cleanliness departments and drivers of containers should be met to the full on Arafa day (9th of Zulhija), at half scale on the first and second days of Eid (the feast), and business as usual for the rest of the holidays.
The circulation also ascertained the continuity of the work of emergency teams as usual and readiness to handle any weather conditions especially if heavy rainfall is to occur during the holiday.
It prohibited random gatherings of immolations whatsoever, except for the sites selected by GAM for this purpose within a supervisory program that was prepared for the whole period of the feast round the clock.
According to the circulation, private abattoirs shall be strictly supervised and no slaughtering is allowed as it causes health and environment hazards.
On Tuesday, GAM finished the delivery of barns and slaughter services to the tradesmen and citizens at the previously selected sites to display and sell the immolations.
As stipulated by the issued immolations instructions, the tradesmen have no right whatsoever to put or sell any sacrifice outside the location or next to the allocated barn, noting that sacrifices are to be brought to the barn firsthand using vehicles to be directly removed after downloading.
The instructions allowed slaughter in a certain place in the barn and provide cutting equipment, it also allowed the tradesmen to offer and sell live stock in condition apt for slaughtering only at Amman Abattoir.
Instruction stipulated that the contractor be committed to remove any sacrifice the vet may reject for lack of compliance with the legal and health criteria, the contractor shall have to make a good (to the customer).
GAM had previously selected ten locations in the capital for selling and slaughtering sacrifices; four of them belong to Amman Abattoir situated in Marka, Sahab, Sweileh, Al Madouna, and the rest locations are distributed on the following sites: Wasfi el Tel Street, next to the International Schools for Foreign Minorities, this location is allocated to serve Tla Al Ali, Sweileh, Wadi Al Seer and Badr Al Jadidah.
In front of Prince Hamza Hospital, in Al Bathaa Street, and it is the sale and slaughter location for the city areas, Al Abdali, and Basman. the opposite side of Shafa Badran district and the police station; it is to serve the regions, Tareq, Shafa Badran, Jubeiha, and Abu Nseir. Aisha Bint Abi Bakr St. and it will provide sale and slaughter services for Al Yarmouk, Ras Al Ein, Badr and Zahran regions.
Near King Abdullah II Gardens, this location will receive citizens coming from Kherbet Al Souk, Naour, Husban, Marj Al Hamam, and Al Mgabalein. And finally in front of the Islamic cemetery this one will be for Sahab, Al Mawaggar, and Al Jeezah.