Delta State Government is working on plans to issue an Executive Order for the arrest of property developers in the State Capital Territory who hire unregistered daily pay artisans to work on their sites.
The Chairman, Delta State Taskforce on Environment, Chief Godspower Asiuwhu, disclosed this on Sunday during a hangout with Journalists at the NUJ Press Center in Asaba.
Chief Asiuwhu recalled that government was worried about the nefarious activities of the artisans who were scattered across the State Capital Territory and directed that they be registered and issued with numbered vests and ID cards for easy identification and control.
He added that the artisans were later relocated to Oko junction, on the Asaba-Benin expressway, from where property developers and others who needed their services were expected to hire them.
The former Commissioner for Environment said it had been observed that unregistered artisans had regrouped at Koka, Mariam Babangida, Akpu, Camp 74 and some other locations within the State Capital Territory, where property developers preferred to go to hire them, thereby denying the registered ones at Oko junction patronage.
Chief Asiuwhu revealed that the proposed Executive Order would prohibit the hiring of unregistered artisans by any developer and the arrest of the person concerned along with the artisans found on his or her site.
On the ban on scavenging, the Taskforce Chairman noted that some of the operators could still be found around with sacks picking up cans and disused cartons, saying that such persons did not constitute any serious security threat and were free to operate.
He spoke on how hotels and eateries in Asaba, Warri, Effurun and other urban towns and cities across the state were polluting the environment by channeling their sewage to the drains, even up to 500 meters away from their locations, and leaving people in the neighborhood with offensive odour..
He warned those concerned to desist and find better ways of disposing of their sewage or face the wrath of the law.
Earlier, the Chairman, Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Churchill Oyowe, said the hangout was designed to promote better understanding between those in authority and Journalists, with a view to letting the public know about their activities, achievements and challenges.
Comrade Oyowe described Chief Asiuwhu as a servant leader who had done well in all the positions he had held in government and assured him as the continued support of members of the Union in his new position.
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