NOA Wants PH Residents To Support Governmnt On Clean Cup

The National Orientation
Agency (NOA) Rivers State has called on residents of Port Harcourt and environs to support the government’s effort towards ensuring  a clean environment in the city.
The Acting State Director of the Agency, Mr Oliver Wollugbom, who said this in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, said that the task of maintaining a clean and healthy environment should be a collaborative effort of all residents of the city.
He said that people must take up the responsibility of cleaning their drains, while refuse be disposed at designated centres.
Mr Wolluhgbom said that it would be morally wrong for people to wait for the government to clean their neighbourhood for them.
The NOA acting director also decried poor turned out of people during sanitation exercises, stressing that these attitudes need to change.
He said that the Agency would embark on sensitisation campaign round the state to enlighten the people on the importance of environmental cleanliness.
Mr Wollugbom also warned the people against building on water right of ways to avoid flooding in the city in view of the approach of the rainy season.
He commended the state Ministry of Environment for its commitment towards regular sanitation exercises in the state.
Also speaking, the state chairman of the Rivers State Special Sanitation Marshalls, Prince Sodum Akiagba, called on residents to cooperate with the government to keep the city clean.
Prince Akiagba said that the sanitation marshalls will soon embarked on the enforcement of sanitation rules and regulations in the city.

Environmental Sanitation Workers Cleaning the scene of the Nyanya explosion in Abuja last Friday. Photo: NAN