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From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said that his administration is partnering local government areas’ transition committee chairmen in waste management across the state.
Governor Soludo stated this at the Government House, Awka, when he held an interactive session with stakeholders in waste management in the state.
The governor said that synergy between the various local governments would firm up waste management at the grassroots.
While thanking the Anambra State Waste Management Authority (ASWAMA) for going down to the 326 wards in the state, he noted that Anambra would become clean from the villages, upwards.
“Growing up in the village, we used to sweep the compound everyday, turn by turn. All the village roads were clean because it was a duty every morning. How can you wake up as a child without sweeping the compound? It was like an abomination. But sadly, people no longer do so. They are like waiting for government to even come to sweep their compound,” the governor said.
He spoke further: “To make this place liveable and prosperous, we must begin with becoming clean and green. We must keep Anambra clean. I’ll be driving around most of the local government areas, to observe. In the people’s manifesto, we identified the environment as our number one existential threat because there is a link between the erosion and waste management.
