Onitsha has by far the largest urban area in Anambra state, and is a densely populated industrial and commercial hub. We must not wait for the government.”The challenge, however, is greater in Onitsha than it is in many places. Some residents also believed that individuals’ efforts to clean up the environment were negated by local and state governments’ inaction. “It is the government’s responsibility to keep the city clean, not the work of the residents,” Ikechukwu Obizue, a businessman, told Egbedi. Anaekwe told her it took him two weeks to persuade the group of nearly a dozen boys, aged 14 to 16, to help him tackle the gutter filled with blackened rubbish.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2018 15:45 UTC