RSG Set To Revamp RSNC, Review Sanitation Law

In few weeks time, the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of The Tide Group of Newspapers, would be wearing a new look as the Rivers State Government has approved complete renovation and equipping of the establishment.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim disclosed this, yesterday, during a media briefing shortly after the State Executive Council meeting held in Government House, Port Harcourt.
He said:”This is in line with His Excellency’s vision to ensure that the media industry in the state competes favourably with their counterparts in the country.
“This is a very healthy development because those of you in the state here will recall that that organisation looks like an abandoned baby.
“But this is a government that is put in place to wipe away tears, a government that is put in place to listen to yearnings and aspirations of the people.
“So, the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation will, in the next few weeks, wear new looks in terms of physical structure and equipment that will make it return to its pride of place in the media industry”.
The commissioner further disclosed that the council has also reviewed the sanitation practice in the state as sanitation marshals would be engaged to enforce sanitation laws in the state.
The commissioner said sanitation marshals would work between 3pm into the night to ensure that the city is clean at all times.
“Council frowned at a situation where people dispose refuse indiscriminately along the meadian and other unlawful places and agreed that the sanitation marshals be used to ensure that residents of the city practise good sanitary habit”, he said.
He said a bill would be forwarded to the Rivers State House of Assembly to that effect.
Under the new arrangement, residents would be urged to bag their refuse and dump them at approved places where the sanitation marshals will come to pick them up.

By: Chris Oluoh