PDP warns of special Covid-19 variant outbreak in Imo because it is the dirtiest state in the country

IMO State has been described as the dirtiest of Nigeria's 36 states by the local chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has accused Governor Hope Uzodinma of creating an unfriendly environment for its citizens.

Once adjudged to be the cleanest state in Nigeria, Imo is now considered an eyesore with refuse piling up across its urban centres. According to the PDP, the main opposition party in the state, the dirtiness of Imo State under Governor Uzodimma has made it most likely that there may be breakout of a special variant of the Covid-19 pandemic in the capital Owerri that will be known as Imo-Covid.

Ogubundu Nwadike, the publicity secretary of the Imo State chapter of the PDP, accused the state government of succeeding in making areas like Douglas Road, Mbaise Road, Okigwe Road, Orlu Road, Fire Service, Egbu, Orji, Imsu, Bishop Court, Works Layout, World Bank, Port Harcourt Road, Old Owerri and New Owerri and other adjoining suburbs to be the capital of dirty environments in Nigeria. He urged Governor Uzodimma to make the environment a frontline priority by adequately funding and servicing the sector.

Mr Nwadike said: “It’s a thing of sadness and sorrow. Ndimo should be mourning the loss of their once beloved cleanest state to waste and refuse. Cry beloved Imo, there was a state.

“Uzodinma must get diligent and conscientious experts to run the sector and not hypnotized clueless politicians that are entrapped in his Camphope political pressure group. Where he lacks knowledge and understanding of what to do, then let him declare state of emergency on environmental dirtiness in Imo State.

“Ironically, butterflying around Uzodimma are Chief Ikedi Ohakim, ex-governor and Chief Willie Amadi, the supposed most prominent environmentalists, the award-winning doyens, apostle and disciple of clean and green in Imo State. Except their mission into failed All Progressives Congress (APC) and incompetent Uzodimma’s regime is acutely personal, they should be able to call their mentor and boss’s attention to the terrible degradation of the physical environment of the state and the physiological health of Ndimo by dirt across Imo State.

“Ndimo must remember that heaven helps those who help themselves. That Uzodimma has failed the environmental sanitation tests doesn’t mean Ndimo must allow airborne diseases from biodegradable rotten waste and refuse to cause them sicknesses and death. Let Imo people remember that they can deploy self-help and circumvent the evil planned for them by Uzodimma by way of killer waste and refuse."