Traders and leaders of Eke Awka Market have held their routine clean up exercise for the month of August.
The Chairman, Governing Board of Anambra State Waste Management Agency, ASAWAMA, Dr Emma Ezenwaji, Managing Director of the agency, Mr Mike Ozoemena, Transition Committee Chairman of Awka South Local Government Area, Mr Thank God Anagor, Chief of Staff to Chairman of Eke Awka Market, Sir Charles Anaeriobi, Officers of environmental health, Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra were on ground to monitor the exercise.
During the exercise two vehicles from ASWAMA and officers were seen carting away the refuse already bagged by traders and kept at designated areas.
Shops at the Market were closed and traders were seen participating in the exercise.
In an interview shortly after the exercise, the Chairman Governing Board of ASAWAMA, Dr Ezenwaji, who revealed that the exercise is normally carried out on second Thursday of every month, said they will constitute local government waste management and hold meeting with market leaders to tackle the challenges pose by refuse in the State.
For the Managing Director of ASAWAMA, Mr Ozoemena by thirtieth of next month most of the refuse piling up across the State will become a thing of the past.
Also speaking the Chief of staff to the Chairman Eke Awka Market, Sir Charles Anaeriobi, said the contractors in charge of waste management must be serious if Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s vision for Anambra State will be achieved.
He also requested for government to designate a vehicle which will be coming to the Market daily to collect refuse.
Some of the traders who spoke with the ABS, including Mrs Ugochukwu Okeke and Mr Silvanus Emeka, commended the exercise.
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