Rivers
Ministry Conducts Environment Rescue Operation
In an effort to sensitise the public on environmental sanitation consciousness, the Rivers State Ministry of Environment organised a special environmental rescue operations Saturday by cleaning dumps on public utilities.
Permanent Secretary of the ministry who lead the exercise decried the habit of indiscriminate dumping of refuse on public utilities and warned that from henceforth prosecution awaits sanitation offenders.
“This is sabotage” lamented the permanent secretary who pointed out at human wastes refuse dumps, as he walked newsmen across the pedestrian bridge at the St. John’s Bus-stop, Oroworokwo, along Aba Road.
“This bridge is meant to serve as convenience for pedestrians crossing this road but these dumps of wasters hinders government efforts toward making the state attractive to inhabitants and foreign investors,” he said.
Also, an emerging refuse dump growing alongside debris of a demolished building at Rumukalagbo was cleared while the team charged inhabitants of the neighbourhood to be sanitary conscious.
He warned the owner of the demolished building to tidy it up or government would be forced to issue him abatement notice on the building.
At the Rivers State University of Science and Technology roundabout, workers of the sanitation authority were directed to clear garbage, silts and weeds blocking the drainage round the beautification works.
Accompanying the permanent secretary were Director, Environmental Health and Safety of the ministry, Mr Napoleon Ewule who doubles as the chairman of the newly inaugurated Technical Committee on Sanitation, and a representative of the Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority.
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Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
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