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.



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The calabar I know used to be very clean and serene



What's with the current government

Bring back Donald Duke please.

What!

My dear calabar now like abia, lagos and other dirty cities?

is this Calabar or Lagos

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

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


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Even calabar too?

Cross River is a pdp state so we have no right to complain

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

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

How can people be confortsble in filth, most of the time we blame government but we refused to hold ourselves responsible.

This is UNLIKE CALABAR
what’s happening to NIGERIA

Ok

No be calabash they used to park dety?! May be they pack am come calabar

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

Leadership failure.
Donald Duke turned Calabar into the cleanest city in Nigeria which was continued by Imoke, but this Professor needs to sit up

What do you expect from a dirty governor?
Calabar was one of the cleanest city in Africa, the dirty governor turn the state to pig house.

Not only Lagos is dirty

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

e get where car go worry u reach my cousin has set his suv ablaze before.he said he will kill the car before the car kills him

I capture the hare called (okete) this morning.... [color=#770077][/color]

just like Lagos