{"id":35478,"date":"2012-01-23T04:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=35478"},"modified":"2012-01-23T04:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T08:45:27","slug":"commissioner-blames-poor-waste-disposal-on-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=35478","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Blames Poor Waste Disposal On Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anambra State Commissioner for Enviornment, Dr. Michael Egbebike, has said that funding is a major constraint to proper management and effective disposal of waste in major cities in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with our correspondent, Egbebike said: \u201cWe are constrained by the lack of adequate funds in the disposal of waste in our major cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn everything you do as a human being, fund is very important for it to be worthwhile and successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the ministry lacked vehicles and receptacles for operational efficiency and effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the insufficiency of the neccesary working materials has hampered the management of waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have enough receptacles and vehicles; so, we are basically struggling with the little we have to evacuate refuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have, however, achieved one objective of removing waste from the gutters into the receptacles which used to be the practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, however, said that the government had ordered for new vehicles and receptacles in its efforts to increase the tempo of waste disposal in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anambra State Commissioner for Enviornment, Dr. Michael Egbebike, has said that funding is a major constraint to proper management and effective disposal of waste in major cities in the state. Speaking with our correspondent, Egbebike said: \u201cWe are constrained by the lack of adequate funds in the disposal of waste in our major cities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}