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Press Statement March 21, 2019

Enugu Govt orders closure of unauthorized sewage dump site at Ugwuaji

Consequent upon the video clip trending in the social media over a sewage dump site at Ugwuaji, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, which was described by the presenter as “a site the tanker drivers said was designated to them by the state government”, a team from the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, led by my humble self, as the Commissioner, paid an unscheduled visit to the site and discovered the following:

1. That the sewage site in the said video was not the property of the Enugu State Government neither was it designated to the tanker drivers by the state government as was erroneously alleged.

2. The tanker drivers we met on ground disposing sewage confirmed the above, and disclosed that it was the people of Ugwuaji community that gave them the site to be dumping sewage, on commercial purposes.

3. The Ugwuaji community through the Vice Chairman of the committee in charge of the site, Mr. Chukwudi Edeh, also confirmed that they allocated the area to the tanker drivers for disposal of sewage on commercial basis.

4. That both the tanker drivers and the community frowned at the false impression created by the makers of the video that the dump site was connected to a river, stating that there is no such river around the vicinity and added that the area is still virgin as people were not residing anywhere close to it.

From the representations made by the tanker drivers and Ugwuaji community, it is clearly established that the activities of both parties at the said site were unauthorized by any agency of the government but a mutual agreement between them.

Consequently, we order the closure of the sewage dump site with immediate effect and request the affected persons to channel their sewage to the government approved sewage site at the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA) dump site, Enugu.

We, therefore, reassure residents of the state of government’s commitment to a cleaner and healthier environment.

Signed:

Prince Emeka Mamah

Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources

Enugu State


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCcxFOvaO9A

Good

That's good

So what’s the alternative?

So Na where them go dy dump the shit

Abi Na for govt house

No subtitle? Just wasted my MB

Then on the contrary, govt just took the jobs of some people without an alternative

Which day will Lagos State close the one at Ijora.

Enugu, the only state I envy in Nigeria

Even the whole Enugu, an Igbo state is a dump site.


Mud too much for there


One love my Igbo brothers

Igbos no get sense walahi

While the one that was closed by ambode at 7up has reopened smh

Hmm

Timekeeper:
Even the whole Enugu, an Igbo state is a dump site.


Mud too much for there


One love my Igbo brothers

It’s too early in the day for you to be stupid

princegeo:
So Na where them go dy dump the shit

Abi Na for govt house

If you watch the video, you no go ask this useless question, it's better than to dump it in government house than dump it in a river where community people fetch water

Nigeria sef

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Thanks dear

Very prompt attention from a responsive govt. Enugu is working

a welcome development unlike the ones I'm seeing here at Mararaba