Taskforce Fines Agbor Modern Market #250, 000 over indiscriminate waste dumping

Taskforce Fines Agbor Modern Market #250, 000 over indiscriminate waste dumping

 .....lssus 24hrs Abatement Notice to clean up the market

Delta State Taskforce on Environment in conjunction with Ika South Local Government Council as well as the Environmental Traffic Control Taskforce has issued a fine of Two Hundred Fifty Thousands (#250, 000) against traders in Agbor Modern market over what it described as indiscriminate waste dumping in the government constructed public drainage system, thereby blocking the drain from free flow of water to the river bank.

The fine was issued on Friday during the Operation keep Delta Clean exercise carried out by the team of the state taskforce alongside lka South Environmental traffic control taskforce in Agbor and its environs.

When the team visited the market situated at Edike street, it discovered that the Agbor Modern market women had turn the water channel drainage to a refuse dump site, thereby causing flooding during rainfall in the market premises as well as the tared road. The gutters where filled to the brim with cellophane paper bags, sachet pure water cellophanes and other market wastes.

Having issued them the fine to pay, they where equally served 24hrs abatement to clean up the market and clear the drainage. 

In another development, the team of the taskforce also sealed up the popular Musa Slaughter market located along Agbor/Uromi road over channelling their bathe room waters to the public drainage, thereby chopping off the tared road in that axis. The Hausa community trading in the market where asked to remove the bathetoom from the roadside within a week time or risk demolition.