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Eastern Waste Management Company moves to end open waste disposal in Imo State 

    BY JENNIFER JOHN / OWERRI
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Eastern Waste Management Company has said that open/public waste disposal bin would soon be a thing of the past in Imo State, especially Owerri metropolis and its environs.
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The Managing Director (M.D) of the company Prince Uche Cyril Nwalor Njoku, disclosed this while interacting with members of Ngor Okpala Journalist. who paid him courtesy visit in his home town at Eziala Umuohiagu,
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He made it clear that every household, business premises and public places will have their own dumpsters which they will be paying for, monthly, alongside sanitation and waste disposal fee.
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According to the M.D, this will naturally take care of the menace of scavengers (Ndi Akpakara), as there will no longer be public waste bin for them to pick from.
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He said for markets; commodity units will have their communal dumpsters and trucks will be coming on daily basis to remove all the wastes.
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“So nobody will have any reason to dump any waste on the floor. When you do, the mobile court will be there already waiting for you”.
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He narrated an incident when the taskforce of the company arrested operatives of a mortuary who are in the habit of dumping cuttings from dead body in Otammiri, after operating on the remains.
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“We have done a lot already that people do not know about. We went there by 12 midnight, stationed our vehicle there. We cought them and they were ready to pay us N4 to N5 million, but we said know and insisted on prosecuting them at the Mobile Court”.
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He said that the company had ordered a lot of equipment and machines from China, which will be arriving very soon, including another set of 20 Compactors.
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“What you see us doing now is to help keep everywhere clean manually, until our machines come in. For instance, when these dumpsters come in, we are going to give every household two-three dumpsters and sensitize them on how to use them; by separating their wastes. We will come in, two-three times every week to pick them up.
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“Also, we have dumpsters for buses and taxis, to curb the menace of indiscriminate throwing of wastes from vehicles”.
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He promised to embark on lots of sensitization programmes, through; jingles, markets, schools, churches visitation/sensitization, distribution of fliers to sensitize people on how to use the waste bags and dumpsters.
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“We have yellow bags, black bags, white bags, brown bags; where you put papers, waste food, cattons, bottles and other breakables; in different waste bags. When they arrive our company, we separate them and use different waste to produce different items, such as organic fertilizers, slabs”.

Editor
Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
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Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
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