Authority Blames Residents For Waterfronts Pollution

The Rivers State En
vironmental Sanitation Authority (RSESA) says residents of Port Harcourt waterfronts must be held responsible for the high rate of environmental  pollution of the area.
The Public Relations Officer of the Authority, Mr Olalekan Ige, who said this in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, said that attitudinal change is required among residents to make waterfronts attractive to people.
Mr Ige said that despite the several arrests being made daily by the authority across waterfronts in the city, the people have continue to exhibit a poor atitude towards the environment.
Despite the fact that we are applying force, people have refused to change their altitude.
“Sometime too, we do enlightenment but the greatest problem is getting them to change their atitude,” he said.
He emphasised that the authority would continue to do all within its powers to enforce sanction across Port Harcourt waterfronts.
In a similar development, Mr Ige has said that Oyigbo  would soon be delisted from groups of dirtiest local government areas in the state.
He said that the situation follows the on-going cooperation by the people with the sanitation authority to rid the area of refuse.
According  to Ige, Oyigbo would soon be delisted because the people are working hard to clean their area.
He said that the authority would continue to enlighten the people on the importance of cleanliness and where it is necessary it would apply force.
It would be recalled that the authority had recently declared Oyigbo the dirtiest local government in Rivers State.