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Aba waste Declare state of emergency

Aba—Aba, Abia State, unit of the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, has called on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to declare a state of emergency on waste management in the city.
 The group said this had become necessary to avert the looming epidemic which might break out over heaps of refuse littering most parts of the city.
 CLO in a statement by the chairman, Dr. Charles Chinekezi, lamented that the situation had constituted a nuisance and serious health hazards to residents of the city. It called on the governor to use his experience as a former general manager of the state environmental protection agency to develop a better waste management strategy in the state