The Chairman of Transition Committee for Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Raphael Asha Nnabuife, has warned that anyone caught dumping dead or living newborn babies in refuse bins in the area would be decisively dealt with.

Addressing a meeting of landlords associations, market leaders and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leaders from the area at the council secretariat in Ogidi, the council boss disclosed that a task force has been deployed to all nooks and crannies in the area to monitor people dumping refuse with all seriousness it deserves.

He said that a special task force has been set up by council to monitor improper disposal of refuse in the area, and anyone caught would be prosecuted in a sanitation court.

Nnabuife described the act as the height of immorality and environmental pollution, particularly when wastes are dumped indiscriminately without tying the bag containing the refuse, to make it easier for the environmental workers to pick them up.

He warned that the task force team who might be in uniform or mufti would also arrest scavengers who open or untie such tied bags containing the refuse bins in search of valuable items to sell, thus scattering the bins.

The council boss said: “Inasmuch as I am not against scavenging, anyone who wishes to scavenge should go to the final waste disposal sites located at either Nkwelle-Ezunaka or Owerri Road, Onitsha and do the scavenging.”

In their separate responses, the Chairman of Nkpor Central Landlords Association, Frank Obi; Secretary of Old Motor Spare Parts Association, David Eze, and Chairman of United Stockfish Dealers Association, Chief Dennis Anyaduba, hailed the Council boss for kick-starting the enlightenment campaign aimed at sanitising the environment.