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Indiscriminate Dumping Of Refuse: Idemili North Chairman, Nkwoka Summons Market Leaders

 --Says He Is Ready To Take Any Decision Positive To Keep Idemili North Clean




  By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu

Following his zero tolerance on dirt and indiscriminate dumping of refuse, the Solution Chairman of Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra, Hon. Chief (Sir) Stanley Nkwoka (Ochendo Idemili), has charged the leadership of all the markets in the Idemili North LGA to rein in their members who are in the habit of littering the environment, saying that the Council will no longer condone any further defacing and blocking of drainage system.


The Chief Servant of Idemili North who gave the charge while addressing the chairmen and representatives of the markets in his office at the Council's Headquarters Ogidi, urged them to ensure that they evacuate all the refuse in their various markets to the designated points as and when due, emphasizing that he was particularly pained with the mountainous refuse scattered across the markets, adding that he got a first hand information during his tour of the markets 


  The number one citizen of Idemili North urged them to always monitor those in-charge of evacuation of refuse in the markets to see that they dump the waste at the designated points and not on the roads or waterways, asking them to always get certified contractors that they can hold accountable when he renege on his mandate.


  According to Ochendo Idemili, he's strictly working on the mandate handed down to him by the Governor Chukwuma Soludo, which is to make Idemili North liveable, Clean, greener and healthy for all, even as he appealed to the markets leaders to purchase  mowers for easy cutting of weeds and grasses.



  The Council Boss who harped on clean, healthy and disease free Idemili North thanked Executive Governor of Anambra State, Professor  Chukwuma Soludo for the opportunity given to him to contribute his quota towards making Idemili North a better living place. 


Speaking on behalf of the Markets' leaders, the   Chairman of Anambra State Markets Almagamated Traders Association (ASMATA),  Idemili Zone, Chief Emma Obiagwu commended the Chairman of Idemili North LGA for his proactive measures geared towards making the Council area the cynosure of all eyes. 


 Some of the markets' leaders who attended the meeting included, 


Okafor O Paul - Chairman Nkpor Main Market - 08036687572, Chief Eric Ibezim - New Tyre Nkpor, Egbo Obiora - Grain Seed Market, Ikechukwu Nkwa - Building Material International Market and Sir Josephat Ekwedike - New Parts Nkpor.

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