Taskforce issues fresh abatement to illegal structure occupants to vacate in warri

Taskforce issues fresh abatement to illegal structure occupants to vacate in warri

As part of the Delta state government effort to keep the state clean, the State Taskforce on Environment in collaboration with Warri South Local Government Council Special Taskforce on Beautification, has issued a fresh one week quit abatement notice to residents in warri, especially business men occupying illegal structures, shanties and containerised shops defacing the aesthetic beauty of the oil city as well as those under high tension to vacate within the time frame given or face demolition.

The notice was served on Tuesday 6th April, 2021 after the Easter holidays, by the state taskforce Chairman on Environment, Hon. Sylvester Oromoni alongside the Chairman Warri South LGA special taskforce on city Beautification, Comrade. Kenneth George, warned those affected to use the one week grace to relocate so as to be on the safe side of the law binding them.

Speaking during the exercise, Oromoni said all occupants of illegal structures, attachment built along the road, especially Edjeba junction by Governor's Office Annex, Chevron Clinic road opp DBS, Ogunu flyover bridge bottom, Airport road by NPA housing estate fence, opp AJ restaurant, Estate roundabout e.t.c. are defacing the aesthetic beauty of the environment, causing unnecessary road traffic jam as well as obstructing free flow of vehicular movement.

He expressed displeasure over the deliberate act by traders occupying public road to do their personal business to the detriment of other road users. While urging those traders whose shops are marked to vacate the premises immediately within the stipulated time or risk demolition by the state taskforce, he stated.

In his reaction, the Chairman Warri South Council special taskforce on Beautification, Comrade Kenneth George said his team discovered a hard drugs business center at the Ogugu flyover bridge bottom, where criminals used as hideout to carryout their criminal activities in the city of Warri. He however, join his voice to that of Oromoni appealed to residents in warri to cooperate with Gov. Okowa led Delta state government to serve them better, he noted.

Meanwhile, there was a drama at Okere market opp, one of the illegal shop occupants refuses to to obey, thereby attacked Kenneth George, tore his clothes while he was performing his official assignment. lt took the combined effort of B Division Police officers warri alongside the state taskforce officials to bundle the perpetrators to detained at the station.

However, the state taskforce sealed up the shops in the disputed area for fighting the officials. They where asked to stop further trading in the area until the matter is properly resolved.