Asaba residents get 21-day ultimatum to end indiscriminate refuse dumps

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

Delta state Capital Territory Development Agency has issued a 21-day ultimatum to individuals, corporate and government agencies domiciled in the state capital to tidy up their premises or contend with the full weight of the law.
The ultimatum was issued at the stakeholders’ meeting between the agency, business owners and landlords in Asaba metropolis after the Director General, Onyemachi Mrakpor read portions of the Delta state Environmental Sanitation Law 2006
According to Mrakpor, “ after this stakholders’meeting , we will be giving 21-days counting from now to tidy up our premises” even as she added that upon expiration of 21 days, every defaulter would be tried by the mobile courts and made to pay stipulated fines within the next seven days, and quoted the offences and corresponding the sanction as contained in the law.”
Mrakpor said that a fine of N10,000 and N50,000 for individual and corporate entities, respectively would apply in cases of indiscriminate refuse dumps, erection of unapproved structures capable of causing obstruction or nuisance on highways.
He added that, “ the landlords or occupier of a tenement shall at all times keep their tenements and its surroundings together with the adjourning and connection drains, gutters and channels free of weeds, grasses filth, refuse or any other waste matter, failure to do so shall attract a fine of N10,000 for individuals and N50,000 for corporate bodies.”