Warri South Council boss, Tidi laments Nigeria’s weak environmental laws
Dr Michael Tidi, Chairman, Warri South Council, Delta State.
By our Correspondent
Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, Dr. Michael Tidi, weekend, lamented the weak environmental laws in Nigeria.
He, however, assured that his administration will introduce Executive Bills to the Council’s Legislature with a view to enacting bylaws that would give bite to the enforcement of sanitaion defaulters.
Tidi made this statement when he led his Vice, Chief Divine Iniovosa, Secretary to Warri South Local Government, Mr. Joseph Oribioye and some of the Council’s Supervisors to inspect the ongoing reconstruction of Pessu Market Road by the State Government while in the course of supervising this month’s environmental sanitation exercise in the state.
The Warri South Council boss enjoined security agencies to step up their game as it concerns restricition of movement on environmental sanitation days.
During the inspection, Tidi ordered loggers along the Pessu Market axis of Warri River, to immediately stop dumping their by-product on the water channel, stressing that it was inimical to government’s resolve to revitalize commercial activities in Pessu Market and its environs.
The Warri South Local Government Boss, who lamented the low compliance of people of the area as it affects the environmental sanitation restriction directive by the State Government, noted that disposal of waste is a shared responsibility between government and the governed.
While commending the Governor Okowa administration for reconstructing the Pessu Market Road, Tidi, said that he was particularly delighted, because the road project was his recommendation when the governor came to Warri in 2018 to hold a town hall meeting.
Officers of Warri South Local Government Council, evacuated refuse at Odion Road, Warri-Sapele Road to Warri Main Garage, Market Road, Cemetry Road, Okere Market to Estate Round-About, Okere-Urhobo Road, Angle Park to NPA New Port axis and also trimmed trees at parts of Airport Road, Warri, as part of the environmental sanitation exercise.
