DSCTDA plans to host door-to-door waste mgt sensitisation programme

As part of measures set to curtail the Asaba flooding malaise, Delta State Capital Teritory Development Agency (DSCTDA), has announced plans to kickoff a door to door waste management sensitization programme for Asaba residents.

In this vein, residents of unclean premises will be prosecuted in accordance with existing sanitation laws, the agency said.

DSCTDA, Head of Environment and Water, Mr. Isaac Nwosu disclosed in a chat with the Pointer, that in line with the agency’s mandate, premium focus is being redirected to marking out silted drainages and evacuating them.

According to Nwosu, the agency is on the know that waste management is pivotal to effective flood control and have identified the problem to be attitudinal dynamics to waste disposal and management among Citizens and residents.

He said, “The State Government did last year de-silt the drainages with a cleanup during the Yuletide were most of the roads were cleaned in collaboration with Hospital Management Board, Ministry of Environment, Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency, Office of the Executive Assistant to the Government on Beautification and the Ministry of Urban renewal.

We came together and did a clean up but the issue is still unresolved. We have come to realize that the
attitude of indiscriminate disposal is something embedded in the psyche of the people. So as an agency, saddled with managing the Capital Territory, we have planned to take off a public sensitization and effective door to door sensitization of residents of the Capital Territory.”

The “sensitization is for them to understand the menace of indiscriminate dumping of waste and the health hazard it poses to them. We are also planning for regulatory enforcement where the existing sanitation’s laws will be enforced toward ensuring a change of attitude where people will comply with the basic principles of managing waste.”

“The State Government has made available waste bins with 50% of the cost price covered by the State Government. It’s an offence not to own waste bins and non payment for waste bill. Once enforcement of these laws commence, recalcitrance will certainly be reduced. Night patrols will be put in place to check night dumpers.”