By: Felix Ikpotor
Worried by the dirt which has virtually defaced the city of Port Harcourt and the plethora of criticism which had followed the situation, Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to service providers who are yet to rid their operational zones of dirt.
He said they should do so, or have their contracts terminated.
Obuah, who issued the 48-hour ultimatum in a statement by his media aide, Jerry Needam, said the deadline given to the contractors was necessitated by heaps of refuse currently dotting some areas in Port Harcourt, the State capital and its environs.
He said the agency can no longer condone laxity of service providers who would not take their jobs seriously.
Obuah who is also the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, warned all service providers doing business with the agency to be alive to their responsibilities, adding that RIWAMA would not relent in its resolve to sustain the Garden City status of the state.
He announced the setting up of a Monitoring Task Force to carry out daily inspections and report any defaulting service provider.
Meanwhile, our reporter who went round parts of the city especially in the old Port Harcourt axis Friday, reports that there where still heaps of refuse in some areas especially the Creek Road Market area.
