BENIN CITY ––As part of efforts to ensure that Edo State becomes one of the cleanest states in the country, the Special Administrator, Edo State Environmental and Waste Management Board, Mrs. Ejemen Inegbenoise, on Tuesday in Benin City, inaugurated the Accredited Waste Managers Enforcement Taskforce.

Speaking shortly after inaugurating the body, Mrs. Inegbenoise explained that the task force was put in place in line with the National Environmental Sanitation Policy, adding that the body was inaugurated to monitor

compliance; ensure that people register with accredited waste managers, and to ensure that refuse is properly handled and disposed, so as to ensure that the quest to beautiful Edo State succeeds.
She therefore charged the committee to take its assignment seriously; just as she enjoined the populace who are the generators of waste to register with the waste managers and be prepared to show their receipts of registration with accredited waste managers to the taskforce.

On his part, the chairman of the taskforce, Mr. Pius Ebhodaghe, assured that the committee would ensure that residents of the state capital register with accredited waste managers.

While noting that the three municipal council areas that make up the state capital had been zoned to various waste managers, Mr. Ebhodaghe appealed to residents of the state capital, to register with waste managers in their area, as the taskforce would soon embark on what he called “Operation show your receipt,” hence they should register, to avoid unpleasant consequences, that would follow failure to register.