The Sole Administrator Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has again stressed that the Agency can only attain its objective to make Rivers the cleanest State in the country if traders in the State dutifully observe sanitation rules put in place by the Agency.
Speaking when he led a Public Enlightenment and Sensitization Team on Indiscriminate Dumping of Waste, Waste Management and Dumping Time of 6pm to 12midnight Campaign, to the popular Oil Mill Market, Rumuokwurusi, Aba Road and Eleme Junction in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Sole Administrator reminded the traders that to keep the market clean and healthy at all times is a task that must be done by all and sundry.
Obuah who was represented by the Director of Environmental Health Department, Mrs. Helen Ohaka, said the public enlightenment programme was necessitated by what he described as the untoward attitude of some residents and those doing business in Port Harcourt, the State capital and its environs, who still engage in indiscriminate dumping of wastes, and outside government approved hours of 6 pm to 12 midnight.
While also reminding other traders, residents and those doing business in Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs that the ban on indiscriminate dumping of wastes on Market Sanitation Days and the dumping of wastes outside the dumping hours of 6pm-12 midnight is still in force, the RIWAMA Sole Administrator appealed to them to comply with the ban as the Agency would arrest and prosecute offenders.
