Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

waste collection in Rivers

The Rivers State Waste Management Agency, RWMA,has finally sacked all contractors and service providers doing business with the Agency for poor service.

The Sole Administrator and also the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,Mr Felix Obuah, directed all Service Providers currently doing business with the Agency to re-apply if they intend to continue rendering services, with effect from July 1, 2015.”

Obuah also directed ‘competent’ Service Providers or contractors interested in doing business with the Rivers State Waste Management Agency to apply.”

Obuah had earlier sacked ten waste management contractors accusing them of incompetence.

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The contractors had complained that their inability to perform optimally was due to four months of indebtedness to them by the previous administration in the state.

The decision to finally sack all the contractors was taken after the first monthly environmental sanitation that didn’t get much needed co-operations from service providers.

Meanwhile, the Agency has provided 20 branded tricycles for the monitoring and enlightenment of the people on the importance of environmental sanitation.

Obuah has also announced that the environmental sanitation court has commenced sitting to try violators of sanitation laws.

He however said that the focus of his administration is not to send people to jail but to create the awareness of the importance environmental health.