ASWAMA Warns Against Dumping Refuse In Drainages, Threatens To Prosecute Offenders In Sanitation Court

The Anambra State waste Management Agency, ASWAMA has warned that those who dump refuse into drainage will be arrested and prosecuted in sanitation courts.

Speaking to journalists in Awka, the Managing Director of the Agency, Mr. Amechi Akora said they have put in place all necessary logistics to ensure uninterrupted service throughout the rainy season and beyond.

Paul Ezeoke reports that Mr. Akora said that the ASWAMA is collaborating with the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency-NESRA to protect the environment and disclosed that NESREA recently circulated guidelines that regulate relationship with environment which if anybody violates the joint Task Force of ASWAMA and NESREA would charged the person to appropriate court.

He explained that ASWAMA has provided rain coat and boots as well as vehicles to facilitate the work of its personnel throughout the rainy season while the various trucks provided by the state government have been deployed to ensure effective waste collection and disposal.

Mr. Akora said the Agency has sustained community outreach programme in thirty-three villages in Awka and has maintained twenty-four hour uninterrupted waste disposal.

Meanwhile , communities in the state have been urged to support efforts of the state Government to effectively enforce the boundary closure order.

Speaking to journalists in Awka, the Senior Special Assistants to the Governor on Security, Mr. Ostar Christopher said while border and boundary control is always a big challenge, the deployment of political appointee by Governor Willie Obiano to help enforce the boundary closure order has helped to stop and turn back many people who wanted to sneak into Anambra from other states.

Mr. Christopher said the political appointees are also manning the water and other illegal entry points to checkmate those who may attempted to enter the state through those areas and stressed the need for the vigilante service personnel and youths of various communities to compliment efforts of the security agencies in protecting all boundaries points.

He assured that the state government would sustain effective checking and searching of vehicles on essential services to ensure that they do not bring people illegally into Anambra state.