RIWAMA Warns Against Attacks On Service Providers

The Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), has frowned at repeated cases of attacks on service providers by cart pushers in the state.
Sole Administrator of RIWAMA, Felix Obuah, in his statement in Port Harcourt, condemned persistent violation of the ban on cart pushers, who have continued to litter the roads and streets of Port Harcourt, as if they were on a mission.
Obuah said the action of the cart pushers was a height of disregard to Rivers government on sanitation laws.
He said: “The height of this vicious disregard for the Agency’s directives and sanitation laws of the State, is the penchant by these cart pushers whose members are mainly Hausa to attack anybody perceived to be standing in their way as they dump wastes at will.
“Information reaching my office also has it that on Monday night, at about 9:30pm, a group of those cart pushers numbering over 15, attacked and inflicted severe injuries on the service providers working for RIWAMA at Rumuomasi axis of Port Harcourt.
“The way and manner the cart pushers who were armed with draggers, irons and machetes stormed the receptacles where the refuse evacuators were to start work and swooped on the defenceless service providers, shows that the violent attack may be premeditated and may have some sponsors.
RIWAMA boss warned that the agency would not condone further attack on its personnel, declaring that any cart pushers found contravening the State government’s law on sanitation would be prosecuted.
Obuah stated: “For the avoidance of doubt, let me repeat it for the umpteenth time, that all the sanitary laws of the state and by-laws of RIWAMA are still in place and any violation or disregard for these laws in part or in whole will not be tolerated and will be visited with the full might of the law inspective of who is involved.