Warri South LGA Chairman Inaugurates 22-man Environmental Sanitation and Beautification Committee

Michael Tidi

            A 22-man Environmental Sanitation and Beautification Committee saddled with the task of improving the sanitary condition of Warri has been inaugurated by the Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Michael Tidi.

The committee which has 19-point mandate, including ensuring that every premises in Warri South Local Government Area has functional toilets, soak-away pits and sanitary conveniences to dispose of the waste water and feaces is also authorized to demolish all illegal and unapproved structures in the Local Government Area.


Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Michael Tidi in an address disclosed that about 60% of residents in the council area were yet to key into the private sector arrangement for waste management, hence the indiscriminate and uncontrolled dumping of waste on the roads and streets, thereby grossly depleting the aesthetics of the council area.

The Warri South Council Boss noted that members of the committee has the mandate to deal with any landlord and tenant and other corporate bodies that fail to register with Warri South Council approved private waste collectors.

The 22-member committee has Comrade Johnson Diawan as Chairman, Kenneth George as Vice and the Warri South Council Head of Environment Department, Comrade Solomon Umukoro as Secretary. 

The Warri South Council Supervisor for Environment, Patricia Edun, representatives of the Police ‘A’ and ‘B’ Divisions in Warri, National Orientation Agency, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Non-Governmental Organizations are also members of the committee.