{"id":134557,"date":"2024-10-17T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:06:55","slug":"amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages","title":{"rendered":"AMAC to sanction Abuja residents dumping wastes in drainages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Mr Christopher Maikalangu, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, has frowned at the attitude of residents dumping refuse in drainage.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing newsmen after inspecting projects in some communities within the council on Wednesday, Maikalangu said they would begin enforcement of punitive sanctions against defaulters<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the AMAC boss said defaulters would be made to pay a fine to serve as a deterrent to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t see reasons why people bring trash from their houses to dump into the flood drains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is wrong, and it is the cause of water overflowing onto the roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese facilities are meant for people, and for proper flow of water, but people will rather drop their waste into the drains<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have been warning the people against it, and soon we will start imposing fines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the contractors handling the projects to urgently remove the trash from the drains to avoid causing flooding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Mr Christopher Maikalangu, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, has frowned at the attitude of residents dumping refuse in drainage. Briefing newsmen after inspecting projects in some communities within the council on Wednesday, Maikalangu said they would begin enforcement of punitive sanctions against defaulters Specifically, the AMAC boss said defaulters would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":134555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,6713,254],"class_list":["post-134557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-amac","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AMAC to sanction Abuja residents dumping wastes in drainages - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr Christopher Maikalangu, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, has frowned at the attitude of residents du ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AMAC to sanction Abuja residents dumping wastes in drainages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr Christopher Maikalangu, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, has frowned at the attitude of residents du ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T08:03:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T09:06:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729143400.408915.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AMAC to sanction Abuja residents dumping wastes in drainages\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-17T08:03:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-17T09:06:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729143400.408915.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"AMAC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amac-to-sanction-abuja-residents-dumping-wastes-in-drainages\",\"name\":\"AMAC to sanction Abuja residents dumping wastes in drainages - 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