In keeping with its promise of maintaining a clean and hygienic state, the Rivers State government said it has started the payment of four months’ debts owed service providers of the waste management authority agency by the administration of Rotimi Amaechi.
Service providers were engaged by Rotimi Amaechi and were not paid for their services for four months.
The agency’s Sole Administrator, Felix Obuah, therefore appealed to Rivers people to exercise patience with the agency in its effort to clear the city of Port Harcourt and Rivers State of garbage inherited from the former administration of Rotimi Amaechi and return Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to its garden city status.
The sole administrator regretted that Amaechi refused to pay the service providers, including road sweepers, which resulted in garbage being littered all over the state.
Obuah on Sunday said while on tour of major streets and roads in Port Harcourt: “I appeal to Rivers people to have patience with us.
“I inherited debt of over N1 billion. Amaechi refused to pay service providers for four months. We are working to ensure that all garbage you see littered on the streets and roads in Port Harcourt, the state capital, are removed.
“It will take some time. But we must get there. We must restore Port Harcourt, the State capital, to its garden city status,” he said.
Obuah then enjoined Rivers people to join hands with the administration of Governor Nyesom Wike to keep Rivers State clean.
