The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, PhD has declared a State of Emergency on Environmental Sanitation in response to the increasing challenges of waste management in some parts of the State, IGBERE TV has learned.
In a press statement released Thursday morning and sent to IGBERE TV, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Onyebuchi Ememanka said that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu will, “in a matter of days, sign an Executive Order to create distinct Waste Management Authorities in the following Metropolitan Local Government Areas of the State – Aba North, Aba South, Osisioma Ngwa, Obingwa, Ugwunagbo, Umuahia South and Umuahia North.”
The statement reads in part:
“Local Government Waste Managers shall be appointed immediately to superintendent over these Waste Management Authorities in the specified Local Government Areas.”
“Effective from today, Friday, 27th September 2019, the Governor shall, for four weeks, PERSONALLY take over and coordinate Waste Management activities in the entire Aba Metropolis to restore sanity and discipline in the entire Waste Management System within the emergency period.”
Igbere TV recalls that Governor Ikpeazu had few days ago donated two refuse compactors and one roll off vehicle to ASEPA.
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