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‘’Sanitation Is A Collective Responsibility’’ NDRO Replies Barr. Ezekiel Amadi



The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation has replied Barr. Ezenwo Ezekiel Amadi over his call for the probing of the Rivers State waste Management Agency describing his call as the height of irresponsible criticism. The group also told the former Commissioner for lands that the issue of sanitation is a collective responsibility and not that of RIWAMA alone.

The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation NDRO made this known in a statement signed by its National Coordinator Comrade Nwokoma Messiah while reacting to the statement credited to the former lands Commissioner who described the waste management agency as a conduit pipe. ‘’the NDRO wouldn’t have necessarily wanted to reply the former lands commissioner because everybody is entitled to free speech but describing an agency as important to the wellbeing of the state as RIWAMA is, as a conduit pipe is to say the least, exceeding the limits of responsible criticism. If the government he served under was using the agency as a conduit pip, Rivers people do not see such scenario under the present leadership of the state’’ the group said.


The group told Barr. Ezekiel Amadi that the issue of sanitation should not be seen as the responsibility of the government alone but the responsibility of all responsible residents in the state. It decried a situation whereby after the contractors have concluded their duty, residents will knowingly or unknowingly make the place dirty by littering the streets almost immediately after. It said Rivers people should make it a duty to call to order anybody that is seen to be littering the streets of the state.

The group commended the state governor for raising the alarm that the people of the state have failed in the area of sanitation describing the statement as a statement from a responsible leader. ‘’what Governor Wike said is the reality on ground. The generality of the people have failed in the area of sanitation and this attitude must be corrected. 

The governor while making the statement was not intending to indict anybody as insinuated in some quarters but to call on all Rivers people to action as regards ensuring that the entire state is clean. For a former official of government to come and twist the statement of the governor to imply that he is indicting a single individual is regrettable and he must be cautioned by patriotic citizens of the state who appreciate the good efforts of the waste management agency under Bro. Felix Obuah as well as the challenges the state is facing to keep the state clean. Rivers state is neater than ever and this fact was buttressed by a visiting world leader the people are disappointed that politics can blind certain people who are desperate to politicise every issue for their political gains’’.

The group advised the waste management agency to ensure that it sensitises the people of the state on the need to watch out for filthy elements who will always show their filthiness by littering the streets of the state. It also urged the agency to ensure that there is proper monitoring and enforcing of sanitation laws in the state.

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