The newly inaugurated Chairman of Rivers State Waste Management Agency Board, Honourable Samuel Nwanosike has called for public support to ensure Rivers State is clean from indiscriminate waste dumping.
Speaking shortly after his Inauguration on Friday, August 22, Honourable Nwanosike said that the available resources and laws in Rivers State are enough to ensure that the state is returned to the Garden City.
He announced the ban of dumping refuse on road median in Port Harcourt and urged the public to ensure that their waste is bagged appropriately before being dumped at approved waste disposal areas.
“All refuse coming from every home, factory, work place or market must be bagged before RIWAMA contractors pick them up.”
“If your refuse are not bagged, don’t bother expecting us to pick them up, you can live with them in your living rooms, bagging of refuse is now the new Dawn.”
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The RIWAMA board chairman said that those involved in essential services must apply for a special pass that will be issued by the Agency to enable them move around during the time allotted for the state general environmental sanitation.
While decrying the indiscriminate dumping of Refuse and delay in evacuating refuse within Port Harcourt and it’s environs, the RIWAMA Board Chairman called for a meeting of Waste collectors and Contractors to ensure that normalcy is returned back to the city.
Honourable Nwanosike also invited Heads of Market Unions and leadership of organizations that deals and produce waste for a meeting to ensure Rivers State environmental laws are obeyed without fear or favor.
He further called on parents to ensure their children adhere to the laws concerning the timing and mode of waste disposal as enforcement of the laws will soon commence.
