Sole Administrator, Rivers State Waste Management Agency, RIWAMA, Bro Felix Obuah, has again appealed to Rivers people and those doing business in the state not to work against the good efforts of the agency, to ensure that the state is environmentally clean and healthy to all residents.
Obuah says any action that negates the sanitation laws of the state including disposing of wastes outside the government approved hours of 6pm-12midnight and outside the government approved receptacles amounts to sabotage.
Speaking against the backdrop of some lawless open truck drivers intercepted by 4pm along Ernest Ikoli Street, Old GRA on Monday, July 5, and another at New GRA illegally dumping wastes, the RIWAMA Sole Administrator wondered why these recalcitrant truck drivers took pleasure in flouting simple instructions and rules even when all it required was to exercise patience for one or two hours to the stipulated time and at approved government receptacles.
Some, like another culprit caught discharging wastes on the median, well outside the approved receptacle along Azikiwe Road, close to Government House, Obuah noted that no other reason could have prompted these repulsive actions other than sabotage for motives only known to them.
He appealed to all residents not to take the Agency’s considerateness for weakness, warning that henceforth, anybody arrested for littering and defacing any part of the State capital and its environs will be made to go through the complete process of prosecution and punished accordingly, while promising to prosecute those caught to serve as deterrents to others who would want to sabotage the efforts of the Rivers State government to keep Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs clean.