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RIWAMA Orders Strict Restriction Of Movement …As Sanitation Exercise Holds,’ Morrow
The Sole Administrator of Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah, has announced that this month’s state-wide sanitation exercise would hold tomorrow across the 23 local government areas of the state from 7am – 10am.
Obuah, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, said there would be strict restriction of human and vehicular movements during the period of the exercise.
The RIWAMA boss enjoined all local government council chairmen and councillors to mobilize their subjects and ensure they clean their surroundings while also ensuring that the waterways are cleared of debris to allow for free flow of water.
He also appealed to security agencies, particularly all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Area Commanders, to strictly enforce the restriction of human and vehicular movement order during the period of the exercise.
Obuah also enjoined all Rivers people and those living and doing business in the state to comply accordingly by using the period to clean their environment and surroundings as defaulters would be arrested and prosecuted.
He urged owners of trucks (individuals and corporate organizations) to make available their trucks for evacuation of wastes that would be generated during the period of the sanitation exercise.
The RIWAMA boss also called on traditional rulers, church leaders, Community Development Committees (CDCs) and other organizations to mobilize their subjects to clean their surroundings.
While urging the people of the state to support Governor Nyesom Wike’s vision of a clean and safe environment, Obuah reiterated the uncompromised commitment of the agency in ensuring that Port Harcourt regains its Garden City status for a healthy and clean state for the citizenry.