To ensure a cleaner environment devoid of wastes in unauthorised places in the state capital territory, the Delta State government is to begin night monitoring aimed at apprehending those who dump their wastes on street medians at night.
This was part of the decisions taken during a meeting of the Environmental Stakeholders’ Committee headed by the director-general of Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency (DSCTDA), Chief Patrick Ukah.
Ukah, who gave a marching order to the agency’s environmental officers to be up and doing to ensure that the state capital is rid of waste, cautioned them that the era of waste in the state capital has passed and asked them to redouble their efforts to make the inhabitants of the area obey sanitation laws strictly.
He said the committee was set up to ensure compliance with the directive given by the state governor,
Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, that all wastes in unauthorised places in the state capital be collected and disposed within seven days.
“To achieve this, the state has acquired a new dump site to ease up refuse disposal. Palliative works have started at the site and members of the committee are working round the clock to evacuate all wastes in unauthorised places in the state capital.
“Two proposed dump sites have been inspected by members of the committee to acquire one to reduce the pressure on the existing dump site.
“In the interim, members of the Environmental Stakeholders’ Committee have visited the existing dump site off Ibusa Road to study the situation there and make the place more accessible to Private Sector Participants (PSPs) to dump their refuse,” Ukah said.
Members of the committee are the commissioner for the environment, chairman of the state Waste Management Board, chairman of the state Taskforce on Environment and head of the Committee on Beautification.
