Governor-elect plans to sell refuse

Ayade said that in many civilised countries around the world now they no longer waste wastes.
“Instead of wasting their wastes they turn them into wealth, as a result there are many firms which are now into creating employment and wealth by buying the wastes from cities and countries,” he said.
Ayade who is still representing the Cross River North Senatorial District on the PDP ticket, was responding to reporters’ questions on his plan on the poor environmental state of Calabar and other cities in the state.
The governor-elect said that he may have to firm agreement with such firms to regularly buy refuse from the state as a way of making money for the state.
In the last two months, staff of the state agency responsible for daily cleaning and evacuation of dirt from city centre, the Calabar Urban Development Agency (CUDA), stopped work.
The frightening result is that the renowned Calabar aesthetic has been seriously threatened.
 General manager of the agency, Ntufam Elegance Edim, who spoke to worried residents last week on the medical and hygiene hazards now plaguing them, assured that the mountains of refuse would be cleared within the week but surprisingly nothing has happened.
“We want to assure that we should be in a position to evacuate all the refuse now noticeable in Calabar within this week,” he said.
A medical and environmental expert, Dr Sylvester Effiong, said that when the environment is unclean and neglected such can in turn cause various ailments adding that medical hygiene includes a specific set of practices associated with the presentation of health.