Ogbaru Council Area has launched “Operation Clean, Green and Sustainable Anambra State” at Cokes Market, Onitsha to mark the monthly sanitation exercise.
The extensive clean up exercise by the council area drew market and religious leaders, market women and environmental health officers who participated in the exercise.
Addressing the traders especially women who deal on perishable items, the Transition Committee Chairman for Ogbaru Council Arear Mr Paschal Aniegbunam, who said Operation Clean, Green and Sustainable Anambra is geared towards achieving a healthy environment, cautioned the traders against indiscriminate dumping of refuse and trading along the Expressway .
Mr. Aniegbunam told drivers who park along the Expressway from Bridge Head Onitsha and Onitsha Owerri road down to Obodo Ukwu road to stop henceforth as the council area authority will begin to impound such vehicles adding that bus stops will be positioned at appropriate places to ensure free flow of traffic.
He called on traders who do not have anywhere to display their goods to come to the local government headquarters as they are ready to map out a place for them and appealed to the state government to consider a pedestrian bridge at the Cokes Market.
The Parish Priest of Saint Luwang Catholic Church, Okpoko, Monsignor Theophilus Odukwe and a Pentecostal Bishop John Okoti who stressed that Ndigbo are known for cleanliness and planting of economic trees , called on Ndigbo to go back to the basics and thanked Governor Soludo for laying foundation for cleanliness, calling for its sustenance.
Comrade Anthony Obiajunwa in charge of Coke ‘s market, commended the government initiative and promised total enforcement and compliance in the market.
others who spoke during the exercise include Director of Shalon Waste Collection For Ogbaru 1 Constituency, Honourable Emeka Asoanya, the Councilor Ward Five Okpoko, Mr.Okezie Frank, a retired Director of Environmental Health Services in Anambra state, Mr. Richman Ibe and some traders including Chioma Okorie,Chidimma Nwachukwu and Chibuike Ezeocha.
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