Rivers PDP Chairman Berates Amaechi Administration for Waste of huge Funds On Failed Bio-larvicide Programme

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro Felix Obuah says despite commendable efforts by all relevant agencies under the administration of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, to eradicate the malaria scourge in the State, clean and tidy environment remains the best antidote to the tropical disease.

The Sole Administrator made this observation in a goodwill message for the celebration of World Malaria Day, Monday, April 25, 2016.

The Sole Administrator said unless people imbibe the habit of living in clean environment, guarding against unhealthy habitation, cleaning up their offices, schools, markets and other public  institutions, the efforts of the Rivers State Government against the killer disease called malaria will be futile.

In Rivers State, Bro Obuah said environmental health offices and institutions charged with general sanitation have been reinvigorated  courtesy of Governor  Nyesom Wike administration, all in an effort to reduce malaria infection and other related diseases.

The Sole Administrator however regretted that all previous efforts geared towards the control of malaria in the State under the former governor, Chibuike Amaechi and his health commissioner, Sampson Parker ended up as mere political propaganda.

He berated Amaechi and Dr Parker for appropriating huge sums of the State’s resources for the fumigation of the entire State with Bio-larvicide for the control of Mosquitoes and which ended up in their private pockets and those of their acolytes as contractors.

“It’s unfortunate that very serious issues of this nature that pose a dangerous threat to human lives were politicized under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

It has therefore become instructive as we are reminded today by the World Malaria Day, the risks for not keeping our environment clean, allowing stagnant water, all of which are good breeding sites for mosquitoes that have been widely acknowledged as principal vectors of the malaria scourge.

As we celebrate the World Malaria Day, it’s necessary that all hands be on deck and conscious efforts made to key into Gov Wike’s new Rivers Vision which includes a clean conscious healthy State devoid of any kind of mosquito – caused diseases besides malaria”, the Sole Administrator pleaded.