The Delta State Waste Management Board has said the daily evacuation of waste from unauthorized places in towns and cities of the state has come to stay.
The Executive Chairman of the Board, Hon Matthew Mofe Edema, said this on Sunday when he led field workers on a waste evacuation exercise at different points on the Asaba – Benin expressway.
Hon Edema, who had hired over 120 labourers in the past three days to join the Board’s field operations staff in the clean up exercise, maintained that waste evacuation and picking of litters on the expressway would continue to receive attention because anything to the contrary would paint a dirty picture of the state.
He said the Airport axis, Marble Hill junction, front of the old dumpsite, Rain Oil Filling Station axis and the Police ‘B’ Division area, which were the focus of the clean up, were strategic locations which should not be allowed to wear dirty looks, assuring that refuse disposal trucks would always be available to promptly evacuate bagged waste to the dumpsite.
The Executive Chairman commended staff of the operations department of the Board for their dedication to duty and urged residents of the State Capital Territory to cooperate with the establishment in achieving a cleaner environment.
He emphasized that indiscriminate dumping of refuse was illegal and warned that anyone caught in the act would face the wrath of the law.
Hon Edema pointed out that the Board had been consistent with its sensitization programme, which he said should not be expected to last forever, insisting that every right thinking individual should appreciate the need to properly dispose of waste, through the Private Sector Participants (PSPs).
The Executive Chairman was accompanied by the member representing Delta North, Mr Cosmos Igbenije.
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