The Sole Administrator of Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro Felix Obuah, has commissioned a 250-member women only waste management intervention programme, tagged Operation Kick Wastes Out in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking while inaugurating the programme, Bro Obuah who is also the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the programme was necessitated by the urgent need to save the local government area from the threat of ravaging filth and improve the health of the people.
The sole administrator regretted that Onelga had for the past eight months been overtaken by wastes and dirt and stood the risk of being attacked by an impending epidemic occasioned by the worsening sanitary situation in the LGA.
He accused the council leadership of allegedly toying with the lives of the people by playing politics with their health and well being.
Bro Obuah enjoined the women not to be deterred by the criminal negligence of the area but put in their best to restore sanity to Onelga by clearing all nooks and crannies of the area of dirt, wastes and the like.
He said the Wike-led administration in the state would not relax while the local government area was been overrun by dirt, stressing that it would do everything possible to save the lives of the people from waste-associated diseases and keep the area and all the parts of the state clean.
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