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For those going to Niger Delta University , (NDU), Amassoma, Bayelsa State, the road leading to the institution should be paved with landmarks pointing to an Ivory Tower ahead.
• Refuse disfigures university road
For those going to Niger Delta University , (NDU), Amassoma, Bayelsa State, the road leading to the institution should be paved with landmarks pointing to an Ivory Tower ahead.
But not so with NDU as overflowing of refuse from the refuse dump of the Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Authority has made the Tombia road that connects the institution unbearable for visitors, officials and students.
Ebiwoei Clarkon told Daily Sun that the site was a wrong choice as it has continued to create a bad image for the university.
According to him, no visitor coming to the university and pass along that road would treat what is being taught in the school with seriousness.
Tari Kilelati a 300- level student of microbiology says she suffers nausea anytime she passes the road with a motorbike.
"Passing that road every morning is a terrible thing for me to do. Few metres to the dump site I block my nostrils and mouth with clothes but yet after passing the place I would still throw up because the stench is just too horrible"
Kilelati's situation is better off than Kalango Ogiriki whose family stays in one of the settlement around the road.
According to him it is wrong to site a refuse dump where people pass or resides because it is capable of causing an epidemic.
"We are suffering here because of the stench of this refuse. This is a small settlement without electricity. To go out and get fresh air is not possible because the breeze that blows is horrible. Government should do something to move the refuse dump from here. It should be sited where nobody lives or where people do not pass," he said
Micah Ebbeli advocated that the Bayelsa State government should start thinking of converting the waste to generate revenue.
He pointed out that in the Lagos waste management has become lucrative, stressing that the image of the university should be saved by moving the dump site from Tombia road.