Chairman Lauds RSG Over Clean Environment

The chairman of Abali Motor Park, Chief Bethel Dappa, has lauded the Rivers State Government in its effort to keep Port Harcourt and its environs clean.

Speaking in an interview with The Tide Monday, Chief Dappa, said the state could be compared with any other clean state in the country in terms of its environmental cleanliness.

He cited the daily evacuation of refuse by the Environmental Sanitation Authority, the mandatory cleaning of parks and markets every Thursday and the monthly clean up exercise as some of the activities initiated by the state government which gave the state the enviable clean status. Dappa told the state government not to relent with the laudable environmental activities this year as they would go a long way in boosting the standard of living of the people. On his effort to ensure that Abali Park key into the environmental sanitation programmes of the state, the chairman said, “We clean the park every Thursday from 7am to 10am. We employed four persons who sweep the park every day and there are plans to engage more hands to tidy the park on a daily basis.

He used the opportunity  to call on food vendors and other traders in the cleanliness, threatening to send parking, any persons who did not measure up in cleaning business area.  He also called on the State Government to endeavour to fence the park and build a standard hotel in the park so as to raise the living standard of the people.

We want the government to fence the park and build a standard hotel for us here. Assuming there is a standard hotel here, all these enteries and canopies will not be there and that will make the park more tidy and standard,” Dappa said.

Calista  Ezeaku