The Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste
Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has recorded another milestone in
the bid to restore the Garden City status of Port Harcourt and immediate
environs.
This followed a meeting on Thursday, August 13,
2015 with multinational companies, corporate organisations, including
hospitality industries and departmental outfits operating in the State where he
called for greater cooperation to boost the crusade for a cleaner Rivers State
and further enhance a healthy and pollution free environment for company
operators in the State.
Bro. Obuah assured that the Agency was poised to
ensure a clean and healthy Rivers State and directed that those on essential
duties and seeking exemption permit for the monthly sanitation exercise
should apply, given the Agency a two week notice, to enable the Agency prepare
the necessary papers.
He told the over one hundred top company
executives who gathered at the Agency’s Conference Hall, that the synergy
between their organizations and RIWAMA underscores the importance placed on
companies in the State by Governor Nyesom Wike administration and urged them to
support RIWAMA to enable the Agency continue to keep Port Harcourt,
the State Capital and its environs clean and healthy.
The Sole Administrator said the meeting was
necessary to intimate them on the modus operandi of his Agency and to express
Governor Wike’s appreciation of their importance in the State.
He urged companies to support the monthly
sanitation exercise by donating vehicles and other equipment. He however gave
special kudos to Mobil Oil Producing Company for supporting RIWAMA in that
regard.
Bro. Obuah told the company representatives that
his agency was aware that fake waste managers were on prowl in Port Harcourt
and its environs, issuing demand notices and receipts to unsuspecting
companies, purportedly from RIWAMA and advised them not to patronize such
people.
He revealed and displayed before the audience a
copy of demand notice for operational permit issued by an acclaimed
service provider to a company in Trans-Amadi requesting cash payment of the sum
of N850,000 and signed by one ‘Dr. Felix Obuah, Sole Administrator of RIWAMA’.
While condemning such unwholesome practices,
Bro. Obuah berated companies who patronize these fakes for pecuniary benefits,
warning that the law would soon catch up with them.
He noted that RIWAMA has designated banks where
payments should be made and do not collect cash from companies, warning both
fake service providers and the companies who patronize them to desist from the
act as his officials would be visiting all companies in the next 14 days to
find out their waste management systems as well as service providers they have
dealings with.
Some of the representatives who spoke at the
event praised the initiatives of the Sole Administrator and urged him to keep
up the tempo.
Njoku Clement who stood in for INTELS described
the partnership as a welcome development and pledged the readiness of his
company to support RIWAMA with equipment that would aid the monthly sanitation
exercise.
He urged the Sole Administrator to explore the
prospect of recycling the wastes for economic benefits.
Emmanuel Igwe of Primus Nigeria Limited said the
meeting was heartwarming and thanked Bro. Obuah for his determination to
restore Port Harcourt to its former status as cleanest city in the country,
adding that his company would do its best to encourage the Agency in its quest
to clean Rivers State.
In the same vein, Mr. Omajara Jacobs of Lone
Star Drilling praised the Sole Administrator for integrating corporate
organisations in the environmental waste management plan.
In his words, “We all know that a good
environment is the hallmark for development. I will go back and tell my
company that the Agency is asking for support so that this laudable initiative
can become a success”.
Signed:
Jerry Needam
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity
To the Sole Administrator,
Rivers State Waste Management Agency
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