Enugu Govt Orders Closure Of Unauthorized Sewage Dump Site At Ugwuaji

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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

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