IMO State House Of Assembly urge Governor Uzodimma to mandate the Ministry Of Health And Consumer Protection Council to Control the Exposure Of Packaged liquid.
IMO State House Of Assembly has passed a motion urging Governor Hope Uzodimma to mandate the Ministry Of Health And Consumer Protection Council (CPC) to Control the Exposure Of Packaged liquid.
The House made call in a motion chiefly sponsored by the member representing Ohaji Egbema State Constituency, Hon. Francis Osuoha.
Presenting the motion, Osuoha noted that the exposure of plastic bottled drinks to sunlight discharges heavy metals into the liquid thereby deteriorating the quality of its liquid content.
He said that plastic bottles are susceptible to degradation under temperature, potentially releasing contaminates into the liquid, especially with the common practice of local stores that leave bottled drinks exposed to sunlight for sampling before trading.
The Lawmaker stated it is very important to note that the highest carcinogenic risk in all brands of plastic bottled drinks occurs after a period of exposure and the level of cancer related cases of patients since the production of consumable drinks in plastic bottles are now on the alarming rate.
He stressed the need of enlightenment programme by CPC to sensitize the dealers and general public on the health danger of such exposure of plastic bottled drinks to sun and to fashion out proactive measure to put an end to it.
Pensioners in Imo state have applauded Governor Hope Uzodimma for ending their two decades of suffering through the payment of gratuities to them.
They noted that since the commencement of the current democratic dispensation in 1999,no administration in the state had deemed it fit to pay them their gratuities until Uzodimma remembered them.
Chairman of the state chapter of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Comrade J B Ugochukwu who told newsmen in Owerri that this unprecedented gesture by the governor will ever remain evergreen in the memories of the senior citizens, disclosed that what has made the payment of gratuities remarkable is the fact that Uzodimma had earlier cleared their pension arrears while the monthly pensions are now regular.
Corroborating the chairman’s assertion, a pensioner, Mrs Mary Nkemjika, said she could not believe it when she was paid her gratuities after 15 years of waiting.
In his own testimonial, Mazi Ogbonnaya Okoro from Arondizuogu disclosed that he was speechless when his gratuities came.
Similarly, Mr Joe Nwadike from Aboh Mbaise acknowledged the payment of his gratuities after a 17-year wait.
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