NoSidonLook:
It's same situation accross the 36 States of the federation

I was even expecting to see it in a major area sef

These are rural places, and such mess are not uncommon in the Nigerian setting

However the states government should introduce policies in order to curb this menace

NoSidonLook:
It's same situation accross the 36 States of the federation

I was even expecting to see it in a major area sef

These are rural places, and such mess are not uncommon in the Nigerian setting

However the states government should introduce policies in order to curb this menace

davibid:
I don’t believe it coz Calabar is one of the neatest cities we have in Nigeria


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SolarKing247:

LAWMA is realy trying, Lagos is not dirty. Eko o ni baje o!

highchief1:
must u give them Dey should go and scrap it der.

uthlaw:
tinubu come do something about this before my people start ranting your name like you cause there calamities...

bluefilm:
Wait a minute.. did someone actually dump their car in a refuse bin?

Enyimbamercedes:
Ok...so the government is not collecting the refuse but the people are still dumping it. Who is now at fault?

How can grown -ups with bushy blokos see waste piling up in their neighborhood not take any action? Dirty people

mastercee:
Bring back Donald Duke please.

SolarKing247:


LAWMA is realy trying, Lagos is not dirty. Eko o ni baje o!

Chiomaella:
Heaps of refuse have taken over major streets and markets, disrupting traffic and pedestrian walk in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

Our findings revealed that the refuse left uncleared for several weeks have overflown the dustbins placed in strategic places in the city.

The heaps of refuse have not only become an eyesore and health hazard, but also obstructed free flow of traffics leading to painful gridlocks and accident.

Places like Palm Street by Atakpa, Palm Street by Atu, Target by Harcourt Streets, Watt Market along Goldie, Watt Market along Nelson Mandela, Marian market have all been covered with heaps of refuse.

A resident of Palm Street, Malinda Edet, told our reporter that for some weeks, now the refuse had not been evacuated and this has made life miserable for her and her family.

“As you can see but for this pavement, the refuse would have entered my apartment. The stench alone is overpowering even as we keep doors shut”.

Mrs. Josephine Ekpam, another resident said she regularly falls sick owing to the flies and mosquitoes that live in the rubbish.

When the garbage was regularly evacuated during Senator Liyel Imoke’s time, she had no problem with the refuse bin being close to her apartment.

When We visited the Ministry of Environment, a director there Harold Ejim said, “The responsibility of evacuating rubbish has been taken from them and given to Waste Management Agency.”

At the Waste Management Agency, an official who craved anonymity said “There is a dearth of vehicles and funds for the agency to function effectively.

“Most of the vehicles here are owned by Frank Ayade, the younger brother to the governor and many are in bad state. Funds are normally channelled to him and what gets to us for diesel and vehicle repairs is hardly enough,” he lamented.

He said the agency is doing everything with the limited funds available “but if that is not enough, so be it,” he said.



See more here https://thickmatch.com/epidemic-looms-filth-take-major-streets-calabar-photos/

tactius:
OK...here is my solution

1.Every calabar resident pays N20000 monthly as council tax.

2.The money is funnelled into a new agency...Calabar Sanitaiton Department.

3.The CSD purchases garbage trucks, installs dustbins everywhere, and also invests in a recycling plant.

4.Every street has a refuse collection day...

5.Problem solved in months.

Garrieveryday:


What would you expect them to do? Not to dump anymore and to evacuate the dumps by themselves using what and to where?

davibid:
I don’t believe it coz Calabar is one of the neatest cities we have in Nigeria


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Chiomaella:
Heaps of refuse have taken over major streets and markets, disrupting traffic and pedestrian walk in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

Our findings revealed that the refuse left uncleared for several weeks have overflown the dustbins placed in strategic places in the city.

The heaps of refuse have not only become an eyesore and health hazard, but also obstructed free flow of traffics leading to painful gridlocks and accident.

Places like Palm Street by Atakpa, Palm Street by Atu, Target by Harcourt Streets, Watt Market along Goldie, Watt Market along Nelson Mandela, Marian market have all been covered with heaps of refuse.

A resident of Palm Street, Malinda Edet, told our reporter that for some weeks, now the refuse had not been evacuated and this has made life miserable for her and her family.

“As you can see but for this pavement, the refuse would have entered my apartment. The stench alone is overpowering even as we keep doors shut”.

Mrs. Josephine Ekpam, another resident said she regularly falls sick owing to the flies and mosquitoes that live in the rubbish.

When the garbage was regularly evacuated during Senator Liyel Imoke’s time, she had no problem with the refuse bin being close to her apartment.

When We visited the Ministry of Environment, a director there Harold Ejim said, “The responsibility of evacuating rubbish has been taken from them and given to Waste Management Agency.”

At the Waste Management Agency, an official who craved anonymity said “There is a dearth of vehicles and funds for the agency to function effectively.

“Most of the vehicles here are owned by Frank Ayade, the younger brother to the governor and many are in bad state. Funds are normally channelled to him and what gets to us for diesel and vehicle repairs is hardly enough,” he lamented.

He said the agency is doing everything with the limited funds available “but if that is not enough, so be it,” he said.



See more here https://thickmatch.com/epidemic-looms-filth-take-major-streets-calabar-photos/

Enyimbamercedes:


What would you do? If your soak-away was blocked and backing up your toilet such that you couldn't flush without flooding your bathroom with poo...and you had no other toilet to use, would you keep on using it? I am sure you won't, so why do they keep on throwing out refuse when no one is collecting it.

I would dig a pit in my compound and burn/bury my waste...i ask again...what would you do?

marvin906:
is this Calabar or Lagos

Reference:
Without a virile multiparty democratic climate, without a stubborn and dogged opposition party snapping at the heels of the governing party stagnation should be expected at best. No meaningful development can occur. Decadence should be expected. Such is the fate of most south-south states gripped in the vice of a laid back and indolent PDP.

The APC must be allowed to make in roads to shake up the tree of power so that the comfortable rats spoiling the fruits of democracy may fall free.

Cross-Rivers' version of political extremism is out of this world. The citizens there are nigh politically comatosed.