By Amos Odeh,
Port Harcourt
Rivers State government has concluded plan to evacuate traders and other small-scale businessmen operating along the streets of Port Harcourt, the state capital.
They were accused of causing traffic congestion, defacing of the environment of state .
The Sole Administrator of Rivers State Waste Management Agency ( RIWAMA), Elder Felix Obuah, stated this in Port Harcourt.
He disclosed that the traders had been given a 24 – hour deadline beginning from May 16, 2017 for traders and others doing business to vacate the roads or face severe consequences.
He further disclosed that already, buldozers had been strategically positioned to carry out the order.
He particularly frowned at street traders and hawkers along the ever busy Eleme junction Ieading to the Imo River Gate in Port Harcourt.
The RIWAMA boss, however, posited that the agency had already served abatement notices to the defaulting traders and others, stressing that sensitisation campaign had also been carried out before now in the affected areas.
He averred that officials of RIWAMA had already marked all the abandoned vehicles, caravans, and rig culverts along the roads, emphasising that the agency would not hesitate to confiscate these equipment on the expiration of the given deadline.
He reiterated the state government’s appeal to business operators in the state not to deface or litter public roads and their business environments and dump refuse indiscriminately on the roads.
