Nigeria: Epidemic Looms in Imo Over Abandoned Refuse Heap

29 September 2016

Owerri — Imo State residents have called on the relevant authorities and the state governor, Rochas Okorocha, to urgently intervene and evacuate a massive refuse heap in front of Ekeukwu Owere Market, along Douglas Road, Owerri, the state capital. They claimed the refuse heap has been abondoned for weeks.

The Guardian gathered that the refuse had been there before last Saturday's sanitation.

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