The Delta State Waste Management Board has continued with its waste evaluation drive in Asaba, the state capital, with renewed vigour, two weeks into the new year.
Field operations staff of the Board, led by Mrs Evelyn Orisewezie, were seen at the Koka junction and flyover axes on Wednesday cleaning up the environment and emptying the resultant garbage into a waiting waste disposal truck.
The member representing Delta North on the Board, Mr. Cosmas Igbinijie; while speaking with our reporter, said the exercise was pursuant to the vision of ensuring a cleaner and safer environment, adding that the zero tolerance for indiscriminately dumped waste needed to be maintained, especially in the State Capital Territory.
Mr. Igbinijie commended the field operations staff of the Board for their dedication to duty, which had helped to sustain the routine evaluation of waste, leaving the strategic locations in the capital city clean at all times.
He explained that the focus on the Koka and flyover axes was in recognition of the heavy human traffic and the frequency of waste generation in the areas, emphasizing the need not to allow the surroundings of the imposing flyover to be defaced by litters and illegal dumpsites and leave a bad impression of the state capital.
The Delta North member said the partnerships the Hon Mofe Edema-led Board had built with Local Government Councils and security agencies would be strengthened in the new year to ensure greater efficiency in the operations of the Agency.
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