https://web.facebook.com/newspublictrust/?_rdc=1&_rdrWith Frank Sainworla and Kelvin Gonlah-
Today, Monday June 5 is “World Environment Day”.
In Liberia, President George Manneh Weah has by proclamation declared the day as a Working Holiday, said a Foreign Ministry statement issued over the weekend.
The United Nations General Assembly, by a Resolution adopted in 1972 and declared the 5th day of June each year to be observed as “World Environment Day” by all Member States.
“President Weah has called upon all people residing in the territorial confines of the Republic to co-operate with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in executing appropriate programs befitting the occasion,” the statement said.
This video podcast has been informed by the rising level of air pollution and filth that has engulfed the Liberian capital, Monrovia and its suburb for a protracted period leading up to the June 5 observance of World Environment Day.
Monday’s video podcast is the latest in a series of reports that this news outlet has been carrying over the past few months about the prevailing sanitary and environmental situation here and in other areas in and around the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
But yet, this problem persists.
With serious health hazard, air pollution and the burning of never collected garbage is a scene almost everywhere–from the shoulder of the Japan Freeway to the rubbish-infested Red-Light market hub in the Paynesville suburb of the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
And this spectacle is just all around. Air pollution here and there, as smoke oozing from the burning garbage is inhaled by thousands of passersby and marketers, with no sign of environmental and health safety inspectors. Air Pollution @ Red-Light Market Area, Regular Burning Of Garbage: Where Is Liberia’s EPA? – News Public Trust
Red-Light is overtaken by a stockpile of garbage which is most of the time burned with smoke polluting the environment, causing respiratory infections, heart disease, and lung cancer. Both short and long-term exposure to air pollutants have been associated with health impacts; and stench with little or no shelter for marketers who continue to have the misconception that they won’t attract buyers because of the exposure to high levels of air pollution.
Speaking to www.newspublictrust.com on Friday, June 2, 2023, marketers explained that the huge garbage is a serious situation that the Paynesville City Corporation (PCC) has refused to address over six months ago.