Apparently receptive to
persistent campaigns by the Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority to keep waste off the drains, dumping of refuse by people living near the Ntawoba creek has reduced.
Investigations carried out by The Tide over the weekend indicate that at the Sani Abacha road axis of GRA Phase 3, the creek was free of debris which hitherto was common.
Act market junction axis around Eligbam road in mile 4, Rumueme, the Ntawoba creek was also free from the common empty plastic water bottles that characterized that axis of the creek.
Okija street, which used to witness unprecedented flooding during heavy rain tall no thanks to mechanics that do busines, this was also free from huge waste that used to impede free flow of water.
At the Aba road axis, near the Federal Road Safety Commission, (FRSC), the creek was far from much of the usual debris  except at the opposite side leading to Holy Rosary Secondary School where the water was not flowing smoothly.
Some of the residents who spoke to The Tide said that the desilting of the canal early in the year has opened up the Ntawogba Creek.
For John Emeri, a vulcaniser who plys his trade along one of the streets in GRA Phase 3, the development may not be unconnected with the efforts of the management of the RSESA.
According to him, heaps of refuse that defied past administrations of the authority along the Ntawogba creek have been cleared even as he said the process was a continuous one.
For Felix Amadi, a banker, “it would be a disservice for any one to want to deliberately dump waste into the creeks again.”
He said except one has no conscience because according to him, the sanitation authority need the support of every resident of Port Harcourt to keep the creek free from debris.
Efforts to speak to the Sole Administrator of the RSESA before going to press was not successful but a competent source said the compliance may not be unconnected with efforts of the present administration.