In ensuring that environmental sanity is restored in Delta State, residents have been warned to desisted from indiscriminate dumping of waste.
The Honorable Commissioner for Environment, Chief Godspower Asiuwhu gave the warning when he led sanitation officers in the Ministry, the state task force officers and Oshimili South Local Government taskforce officers on his first official environmental monitoring duty in Asaba, the state capital.
The Commissioner commended the sanitation department for their diligence in ensuring that the state observed the exercise on monthly basis.
He said he would not tolerate any negligence to environmental law as his administration would ensure that monitoring of environment commences after the deadline on every environmental sanitation day, adding that any premises found unclean would be locked up and the defaulters would be made to face the law.
Expressing satisfaction, the Director of Sanitation, Mr Lucky Adah, said with proactiveness of the Commissioner they were able visit so many places where they were able apprehend defaulters.
Adah advised Deltans to desist from dumping refuse indiscriminately, rather they should hand them over to Private Sector Participants (PSP) for proper disposal, adding that any one found guilty would be apprehend and prosecuted.
The exercise also had 40 persons arraigned, out of which 39 defaulters were arraigned while one of the arraigned persons was discharged, adding that 21 defaulters were engage in community service.
Highlight of the exercise was the spotting of the Commissioner on a motorcycle as he raided over 60 defaulters who were intercepted along Konwea junction, InterBau junction, Ogbeogonogo market area and other environs in the state capital and later prosecuted.
