Worried by the poor waste disposal system, the Bayelsa State Government, has declared a state of emergency on the issue of waste management in Yenagoa, the state capital, and its environs.<\/p>\n
To this end, it has unveiled a new environmental sanitation policy empowering the State Environmental Sanitation Authority as an autonomous body.<\/p>\n
It has also cancelled all waste disposal contracts in the state capital.<\/p>\n
The Chairman of the Sanitation authority, Chief Ebifemowei Abel, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Yenagoa last Thursday.<\/p>\n
Abel, flanked by Prince Ebitimi Angbare, the former governorship flagbearer of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2007 poll, said: \u201cThe state government has declared a state of emergency on the issue of waste in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not going to be business as usual. We met a very dirty state capital and we have vowed to institute a system that will ensure that the state capital attains the status of one of the cleanest in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that the new sanitation policy included the introduction of a new parking rules for all motorists in the state capital and a new bagging system for refuse.<\/p>\n
He said that a task force had been set up to arrest individuals littering the road with empty water sachets and other waste materials,\u00a0 adding that\u00a0 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. had been designated for the disposal of refuse at public bins.<\/p>\n
According to him, the new sanitation policy was conceived to improve the sanitary condition of the state.<\/p>\n
The chairman directed all local government councils to henceforth, take the monthly sanitation exercise seriously, warning that a team would be dispatched to all the councils to monitor compliance.<\/p>\n
He also warned that henceforth, persons who dumped sand and gravel on the roads and streets indiscriminately, would face the full wrath of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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