Amby Uneze
3 January 2009
Owerri — The Clean and Green crusade being championed in Imo State by Governor Ikedi Ohakim administration has convicted about 2,000 persons for sanitation offences.
Vice Chairman of the State Environmental Transformation Committee (ENTRACO), Barrister Willie Amadi, said between August to September, this year, when the body embarked vigorously on the demolition of illegal structures in the state capital as well as the satellite towns of Okigwe, Mbano and Orlu, an estimate 1,660 illegal structures were demolished.
Briefing newsmen in his office, Amadi said he was committed to the mandate given to him by the governor in ensuring that the state continued to wear a clean look, as such attracts the needed investors to the state for economic and human development.
Amadi said the governor in his effort to maintain a free flow of traffic and comfortable transportation system in the state had decided to create the Imo State Municipal Transport Company and Imo State Commercial Motorcycle Regulatory Agency to be able to manage the transport system in the state.
According to him, we are redesigning the transport scheme taking into cognisance of the civil service structure in the state and we are moving ahead to remain a state to beat in terms of both infrastructure development and orderliness.
On the illegal structures, Amadi popularly called "Mr. Clean and Green" emphasised that government felt the pulse of the people and directed that the action had to be slowed down to enable her provide alternative spaces for the traders to relocate, but expressed dismay that areas provided by government had been abandoned by those who were meant to occupy them.
He warned "as from end of January 2009, we are going to ban the use of canopies, expect at the designated free zone for that purpose".
The ENTRACO boss expressed satisfaction with the sacrifice Imo people had done in support of the New Face Imo Agenda and assured that a lot were being done by the government to continue to improve their lot.
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