State-wide Monthly Sanitation Exercise: Again, Obuah Thanks Rivers People For Massive Participation
…Calls For Repeat Performance
Following the massive participation of people during the monthly sanitation exercise held across the State on Saturday, June 29, 2019, the Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah, has again expressed his appreciation and called on the people to sustain the tempo in subsequent exercises.
Bro. Obuah in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam said one way of achieving this is to cultivate a culture of regular and sustained cleaning of their immediate environment while also participating actively in the state-wide exercise which holds last Saturday of every month.
He said cultivating such attitude would serve as motivation to RIWAMA which has remained unwavering in its mandate to keep the State clean and restore the Garden City status of Port Harcourt, the State capital and its environs
Bro. Obuah also noted that the active participation of Rivers people in the state-wide environmental sanitation exercise, as demonstrated last Saturday by people of the State, was a good way of reciprocating the good gestures of Governor Nyesom Wike whose support and encouragement to RIWAMA remain unparalleled.
The RIWAMA boss while still reveling the success of the last month’s sanitation exercise also appealed to residents and those doing business in the State to observe sanitation laws by dumping their wastes only at RIWAMA approved receptacles and to also adhere to the dumping hours of 6 pm to 12 midnight.
Bro. Obuah said it is an offence to dump wastes indiscriminately especially at the median of the roads as such practices contribute in defacing the city.
He warned residents to observe sanitation rules, adding that it is no longer business as usual, as the Special Sanitation Court, located inside the RIWAMA office along Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt has been set up to prosecute offenders.
Bro. Obuah also thanked individuals and corporate organizations who donated equipments for the evacuation of wastes during last Saturday sanitation exercise, calling on others to emulate the gesture.
The RIWAMA Sole Administrator said it is worthy to mention and acknowledge the patriotic roles played by the Orogbum Youths Association as well as the Creek Road Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) in Port Harcourt during last Saturday’s sanitation exercise; and urged other churches, faith-based organizations and youth bodies to emulate the ‘shining’ example of these groups in the cleaning of their surroundings.
