Rivers To Set Up Highway Sanitation Team

The Rivers State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Kingsley Chinda, says the state government will soon come up with a high way sanitation control team.

 The Commissioner said the team would take care of liter control and road sweepers along Port Harcourt/Aba Road and Rumuokoro axis of the state, adding that when that is done, stringent measures would be taken against sanitation offenders.

 According to him, “I agree that the entire highway is very untidy. We have a challenge and we have set target for ourselves; between now and March we would start work effectively”.

 The Commissioner restated that the new directive to have sanitation at all public places every Thursday has come to stay and that no form of trading is expected to take place during the 7.00am to 10.00 am cleaning period.

 He hinted that the Rumuodamanya abattoir and market would be relocated, while an ultra modern abattoir would soon be constructed in the state.

 Mr. C.N. Utu, an Environmental Health Officer, EHO, who led the monitory team told the traders and transporters that they were to take the exercise seriously, saying that defaulters would be prosecuted and have their wares impounded.

 The chairmen of Eliozu and Rumuokoro markets, Messers Tijani Tunde and Chima Okocha used the opportunity to thank the government for the initiative and declared their unreserved support for the exercise.

At the Rumuodamanya abattoir, the Chairman, Alhaji Alani Salamhudin, appealed for provision of first aid kits for them and the dredging of the Mini Okocha River which runs behind the abattoir to check perennial flooding.