Firm gets Imo PPP deal for environmental health hazards 

By Saby Elemba, in Owerri

• Ezelukwu Ventures to apply effective methodology

Desirous to strengthen government’s measures against environmental hazards in the state, a firm, Ezelukwu Ventures Nigeria Limited, is partnering with the Imo State Ministry of Sanitation and Hygiene, and has immediately assembled a team of “Environmental Health Field Assistants” to ensure ease of its operations.

The firm, well known for its vast operations in tackling environmental health hazards in the country with its workforce, will operate with aprons bearing “3R Ministry of Sanitation and Hygiene, Field Assistants”. It is also expected to embark on a sustainable public enlightenment campaign against all forms of impediments to good health,  Austin Nnodim, its managing director and chief executive officer, said. 

Nnodim  has also indicated the readiness of the firm and the field officers to swing into action without delay in line with the government’s official mandate on awareness creation.

With a tremendous and experienced workforce with very good track records, Nnodim said that the firm’s  application of effective methodology on tackling environmental issues would enable it to tackle the environmental health issues effectively.

He added that the workforce would not work at cross purposes with the activities of the government as there are laws and regulations guiding its operations.

Meanwhile, Elias Martins Emedom, the commissioner in charge of the ministry  while receiving  members of the team in his office, charged them to work in synergy with the staff of his ministry saddled with similar responsibilities and also to operate within the confines of the enabling law that established them.

Emedom, a medical expert, noted that sanitation and hygiene are indispensable factors for healthy living and meaningful business ventures in any society, but regretted that avoidable environmental pollution and degradation had more often than not become stumbling blocks to man.

The  commissioner also stressed the need for them to be sincere and transparent in revenue collection and to pay the same to the government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) as at and when due.

“Please work within the confines of the law and I do not want a situation whereby you will go to the field and become a problem to us or the field becomes a problem to you,” he admonished.