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Spare Parts Dealers Get Three- Day Ultimatum
The Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority, (RSESA) Mr. Ade Adeogun has given motor spare parts dealers along Olu Obasanjo Road, Port Harcourt, three days within which to remove all scraps blocking the road.
Mr. Adeogun who handed down the ultimatum while monitoring last Saturday’s Sanitation exercise said the issue was not just a threat, “we believe in action”.
He said the action was to prevent the area from being turned to a scrap yard by the traders and vowed that if the traders do not comply by Tuesday, the authority would swing into action.
“This is Port Harcourt City not scrap city and we will not allow anybody under any guise to turn our city to a scrap city”, he said.
He said just as scrap was being removed along Aba Road and Oyigbo area the authority would not be deterred even as the exercise would cost them money to embark on.
He stressed that even if it meant closing down the market to make them comply with environmental standards in the state, the authority would not relent as according to him “we will get the courts to help us in that process”.
“If we have to shut down as many markets as possible to let people learn that this is a decent city with decent people living in this city, we will do it”, he said.
On his plans for the success of the authority, Mr. Adeogun said he intends to run the authority as a business with proper direction and plan with a view to making profit.
This is not about clearing the city, it is about turning the place into business so that we establish the thing and make it a value chain for people to make wealth in the process.
Also speaking, the head of Operations of the Authority, Mr. Nmegbu Ugochukwu said it was no longer business as usual as sanitation offenders now face prosecution.
He said that 29 sanitation defaulters were arrested during the exercise.
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