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Aba will no longer harbour filth – New ASEPA GM
The new General Manager (GM), Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA), Mr Ogbonna Okereke, has promised that during his tenure, Aba would no longer habour filth.
Okereke disclosed this in Aba on Saturday while speaking with newsmen, saying that Gov. Alex Otti’s government had promised to do things differently to ensure that Abia is placed on the path of progress, including giving Aba a new sanitary look.
The new ASEPA GM said he was ready to change and correct the waste disposal attitude of Aba residents in order to keep the city in proper sanitary state.
He said that with the government’s mandate, his agency would also work in other Abia cities to ensure the state sustains a culture of cleanliness as God’s own state.
Okereke said the state had begun production of over 100 units of waste disposal buckets to be placed strategically in Aba and Umuahia, the capital, to ease waste collection.
He noted that the mass production of the buckets through a Public Private Partnership initiative aims at combating the perennial problem of poor waste disposal in the state.
Okereke said Otti’s government would involve private investors in waste management in Abia to ensure cleaner cities.
He said that the engagement of private investors in the sector would help improve sanitation in the state.
“The present efforts to rid our cities of indiscriminate waste disposal culture will be pursued with vigour, commitment and sincerity of purpose,” Okereke promised.
He, therefore, called for the cooperation of all Abia people and residents to support ASEPA in its yearning for a cleaner environment.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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