WARRI-The Delta State Waste Management Board has inaugurated a Task force in the Warri metropolis and warned that anybody found dumping refuse indiscriminately will be dragged before a court of law.

The task force comprises of the local people drawn from the communities in the area to ensure that residents dump their refuse in the appropriate channels otherwise defaulters are to face prosecution through the Waste Management Law.

It was gathered that prior to the inauguration of the task force which is made up of 40-members, Warri streets and its neighbourhood had been so littered with rubbish dumps from both industrial and domestic waste.

The state Waste Management Board, headed by Hon Frank Omare, had earlier embarked on same mission of making the state capital clean by dislodging illegal refuge site and apportion new place as dump site.

In Warri, while inaugurating the task force, Hon. Omare charged the members to carry out their responsibility with diligence and with the ambit of the law that set up the board adding that any officer who is caught in the act of extortion would be sanctioned and charge with the environmental laws.

He implored the task force never to be over zealous in duty or intimidate residents while trying to enforce the order for a cleaner and healthy environment in the state adding there would be massive evacuation of refuse in the area between the hours of 12- 3:00am.

He lamented that those who indiscriminately dump refuge were thwarting government effort at beautifying the state adding that the task force in carrying out its responsibility would arrest defaulters of the state Waste Management Law and prosecute same in a mobile court.

According to him; “There would be no sacred cow. No compromise, no negotiation, If my men arrest you, for illegally dumping of refuge, you would be charge for the offence in a mobile court and if found guilty the person would be fined and where he or she can not pay, the person would be committed to the prisons”

Hon. Omare said in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), the Local Government Councils, and the Waste Management Board would ensure a cleaner Delta.

He said that residents of an area where a dump site had been evacuated and its resurface in week’s time would be persecuted.