By Chibuzor Ogode

In a bid to consolidate the continuous effort of the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori administration to create a clean, secure and Green environment for the people, the Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency continues to carry out inspections and sensitization exercises around the capital Territory, with a call on stakeholders, shop owners and market traders to register with private sector waste disposal companies and stop dumping waste on the median kerbs, walkways, setbacks, koka fly over and other unauthorized places in the capital Territory.

Speaking during the inspection and sensitization exercise on Friday 4/4/2025 at the koka fly over, the Head of Administration and Finance of DSCTDA, Mr. Vincent Ohwofadjeke, who was accompanied by some staff members of the Agency, warned those who had turned the koka fly over bridge to refuse dump to desist from the negative practice.

Mr. Ohwofadjeke, who decried the high level of indiscriminate dumping of waste on the koka fly over, setbacks walkways, drains and other unauthorized places, also frowned at illegal trading activities going on under the koka flyover, and urged the people to support the efforts of the state Government to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment.

Ohwofadjeke explained that the DSCTDA is a Government Agency created to accelerate Development within the Capital Territory and that Environmental sanitation is one of the Sub functions of the Agency.

He also made it clear that Delta State Waste Management Board is in charge of keeping the koka flyover clean and that PWAN Group; a Real Estate company has been given the contract to beautify the koka flyover on a PPP arrangement and that work was seriously ongoing. He noted that a police post is being built by the side of the koka flyover and that the presence of the police around the koka axis would help reduce crime rate in the area and get rid of miscreants, hoodlums and street urchins that have currently taken over the Coker Bridge. The Agency also revealed that an existing but disfunctional public toilet was also being reconstructed by the side of the koka flyover. This is aimed at stopping the nuisance of continuous defecation on top and around the Coker flyover bridge.

While addressing traders at the summit fruit market, he said that “the Agency is not out to inflict pains on street traders, which is why the Agency is constantly out ensuring that traders are constantly keeping their environment clean with the daily sanitation program currently going on.

“Anybody that is found wanting, doing any other thing apart from what has been announced, dumping dirt on the drains, walkway and setback will be apprehended and prosecuted. This is a sound warning from Delta state capital Territory Development Agency. We are set out and we are determined to make the state clean,” he added.