…Launches ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’
By: Felix Ikpotor
In keeping to its ban on the activities of cart pushers in the state, the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) says it has impounded 200 carts while 28 pushers have been prosecuted.
This is even as the agency has launched a programme known as ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’.
The Sole Administrator of the Agency, Bro. Felix Obuah who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, the State capital, said the programme was aimed at having every resident and those doing business in the state to take the cleaning of their premises more seriously.
Bro. Obuah said the agency would take the message of Operation Clean Your Frontage to all the nooks and crannies of the state, warning that it would no longer condone untidy frontages and premises.
The RIWAMA boss warned that all residential apartments, companies, shops, markets and all other business places in the State who fail to comply with the programme would have their shops closed or company premises sealed up while Sanitation Marshalls would arrest and prosecute residents who fail to keep their frontages clean.
The Sole Administrator reiterated that cleanliness would promote good health for everybody in the State, stressing that the Operation Clean Your Frontage programme would be enforced to the last letter.
“To be forewarned is to be forearmed. It is instructive therefore to take heed and support the Agency by complying with the directive so that nobody becomes the scapegoat.
“This Operation Clean Your Frontage is no respecter of persons. Any person or company who flouts the instructions would be sanctioned no matter how highly placed”, Obuah declared.
Speaking on the ban on Cart Pushers in Port Harcourt and its environs, Obuah disclosed that 28 cart pushers have so far been arrested and prosecuted while 200 carts have been confiscated and are currently packed at the premises of RIWAMA along Mile 4, Rumueme in Port Harcourt.
The Sole Administrator again announced that the agency has achieved over 80% cleanness of Port Harcourt and attributed the development to the massive moral and financial support of the State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
“Port Harcourt can be recorded as one of the cleanest city in Nigeria today because of our governor who has remained the motivating factor. He is one man who wants things done and done very well, and that is why he is always ‘pushing’ us to go beyond our limits and I have to thank him immensely for that”, Bro. Obuah remarked.
