Abia State Government has set up a mobile cour to check the unabated harmful environmental attitudes of the people in the State particularly in Aba.
Mr Tony Nwamuo, the State Commissioner for Environment, made this known while monitoring environmental activities in Aba the commercial nerve centre of the State.
Mr. Nwamuo strongly condemned the actions of the auto mechanics at Clifford, School and Weeks roads who have converted the newly reconstructed roads into workshops thereby thinning out vehicular movements on them and causing untold hardship to other road users.
The Commissioner, who gave the operators 72 hours to vacate the streets, frowned at the level of degradation their activities have caused on the roads stressing that the expired engine oil constantly poured on the asphalted roads and defecation into the gutters have not only defaced the streets but also damaged them to the extent of throwing the roads back to their hitherto deplorable conditions and setting the state backwards in its progressive step of achieving all round infrastructural development.
At the newly constructed Osusu, Ebenma and Egege roads, the commissioner called on residents to join hands with the administration of Dr Okezie Ikpeazu to build the State and stop disposing their waste into the drainage systems.
Meanwhile, earthwork activities are in progress at Ngwa Road, Obohia and Ohanku roads as Mr Tony Nwamuo expressed satisfaction with the situation and hope that with the increased operations of the construction companies that have deployed more equipment, the projects will witness accelerated progress and appreciable results before the next visit of the Governor.
ABIA ONLINE can recall that Governor Okezie Ikpeaz had during the recent commissioning of Osusu Road in Aba, threatened to sack the Commissioners for Environment, Works and others associated with the ongoing reconstruction work along Ngwa Road if more equipment are not mobilized to accelerate the projects.
