The Delta State Waste Management Board on Thursday moved to enforce compliance with the state’s Public Private Partnership in waste disposal in Asaba, the state capital.
The enforcement drive, which was led by the Chairman of the Board, Honourable Emmanuel Chinye, took a combined team of the Board’s officials and the State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation to different parts of the capital city, where residents were made to show evidence of registration with the Private Sector Participants covering the various zones.
Honourable Chinye said compliance with the PSP initiative, aimed at eliminating indiscriminate dumping of refuse in major towns and cities of the state, was not negotiable no matter whose ox is gored.
He said while the Board would not relent in its sensitization campaign on cleaner Delta, it would not tolerate the claim of ignorance of the law by violators, stressing that keeping the environment clean, particularly as it concerned waste disposal should be seen as part of life.
Honourable Chinye urged individual and corporate clients in the state to register with the PSPs and pay the appropriate token to have their waste collected from their homes and business places for disposal to approved dump sites, as not registering or not paying the right token were punishable offences.
At the end of the exercise, eleven persons were arraigned before a Mobile Court which sat at the Oshimili south arcade, five were discharged and acquitted, while six were found guilty and fined accordingly.
Some new clients were registered by the PSPs who accompanied the enforcement team, which included the Director of Operations in the Board, Mr Michael Esegba, and the leader of the Environmental Sanitation Task Force in Asaba, Honourable Tony Onyia.
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