CLO Cries Out To Soludo As Rotting Waste Turns Onitsha’s Bright Street Into A Health Time Bomb
Mountains of festering refuse are silently breeding disease in the heart of Onitsha’s Main Market, a commercial nerve centre where survival depends on movement, air and space that no longer exist.
Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Anambra State Branch, has raised a distress alarm to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo over what it describes as a “looming public health catastrophe” at Bright Street, Main Market, Onitsha.
In a strongly worded statement issued in Awka under the theme “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” the group said heaps of waste dumped since December last year have completely blocked the road, making it impassable for vehicles and dangerously unhealthy for traders, residents and visitors.
The statement, endorsed by Evangelist Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme (AMBP-UN), Chairman of CLO Anambra, and Comrade Chidi Mbah, Secretary, urged the governor to immediately direct the Commissioner for Environment to carry out an impromptu inspection and evacuate the refuse without further delay.
CLO warned that the situation poses severe health risks, noting that foul odour, flies and possible contamination threaten daily market activities and human lives.
The group added that complaints from frustrated road users during a recent visit to the area underline the urgency of government intervention.
Citing a similar incident during the Willie Obiano administration, when waste blocked Ochanja Roundabout until CLO’s intervention prompted evacuation, the organisation called on the Soludo government to act swiftly before an epidemic breaks out.
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