As part of measures aimed at ensuring a clean and healthy environment, the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) says it has commenced daily monitoring of major roads and streets in Port Harcourt and its environs.
Sole Administrator of the Agency, Bro. Felix Obuah disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt. by his media aide, Jerry Needam
He urged all residents and those doing business in the city to clean their gutters and drainages, and dispose their refuse into RIWAMA approved receptacles.
Obuah advised residents and those doing business in Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs to take the sanitation of their areas seriously.
He also warned that those who flout the directive would be prosecuted in line with sanitation laws.
The RIWAMA boss further declared that dumping of refuse on the median is unlawful, warning that anyone caught in the act would face the law.
Bro. Obuah charged service providers working with the agency to take their work seriously by ensuring that their areas were clean daily and warned service providers to sit up or get fired.
He reminded the service providers that the task of keeping Port Harcourt and its environs clean at all times was a mission that must be accomplished and frowned particularly at the nonchalant attitude of some contractors in the discharge of their duties.
Obuah stressed that the objective of RIWAMA in ensuring the cleanliness of all nooks and crannies of the city and its environs at all times could not be compromised.
Agnes Onwuegbu