By Omos Oyibode, Asaba
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has charged Environmental Marshals to ensure clean waste disposal habits among the citizenry for a cleaner and healthier Delta State.
Governor Uduaghan gave this charge, Monday, in Asaba when he commissioned 17 vehicles for the environmental marshals and 46 modern tractors and implements for farmers across the state.The Governor said that environment monitoring was critical to effective waste management in the state as it would check indiscriminate dumping of refuse especially on pavements and drainage adding: “Delta State will become cleaner and healthier when people develop a clean waste disposal habits”.
While disclosing that 64, 000 waste bins would soon be distributed in major towns and cities in the state, he said that the vehicles would increase the mobility and monitoring process of the environmental marshals as “they will now monitor refuse from the point of generation to the final destination, the waste dump”.
On the Tractors, the governor said that the tractors and farming implements would help farmers in the state to prepare their farm lands and improve their yields explaining that “there is the need to improve on our present subsistence farming methods if we want to take part in the present agricultural revolution, we need to grow from manual farming to mechanic farming”.
Uduaghan disclosed that the tractors and vehicles would be part of the hand over notes to the in-coming administration to ensure proper monitoring of the usage.
