Residents of the Calabar metropolitan areas have raised alarm over the surge of refuse dumps throughout the city, expressing fear that it might lead to a disease break out in the city.

Raising the issues through media organisations in the state, the residents appealed to the state government to authorise the sanitary and immediate evacuation of the installing wastes.

Phone-in callers in four private radio stations Friday morning lamented the mountains of refuse in Calabar South part of the capital.

They criticised the state government for permitting the town, which utilized to be the cleanest in the country end up being the dirtiest.

Out of ten callers on a radio program on Sparkling FM, Calabar, eight stated the federal government was insensitive to the health of homeowners, warning that the outbreak of cholera, Lassa fever, and malaria impended

Sylvester Akpan, a citizen said “Everywhere you turn now in Calabar South, you can not get away mountains of dirt. At Mbukpa market, it has entirely blocked the access roadway and the marketplace ladies who offer by the roadsides sit on top of the wastes.

“There are no major streets in Calabar that decline have actually not taken control of and the authorities from the ministry of environment or Calabar Urban Development Authority have actually not bothered to act.”

Another caller, an instructor with a private school, Mrs Stella Ekpenyong said “We should anticipate break outs of contagious illness in no time as pipe-borne water has been polluted currently.”

An Efik community leader, Etubom Effiom Walter, who expressed anger, said the federal government was not taking notice of ecological sanitation like previous administrations.

However a senior authorities of the state ministry of environment who talked to DAILY POST under privacy said the task of evacuating the refuse is no longer straight within the purview of the ministry.

“The state government has given that contracted the evacuation to personal individuals.

“For circumstances, it is declared that the Governor’s relative has the contract however who understands whether he has actually paid the people working for him. Whenever refuse installs in Calabar, know that the specialists are owed. As a ministry, we have no power to question the governor’s bro or special persons handling such contracts.

The Commissioner for Environment, Mfon Bassey has actually assured locals that the refuse would be cleared before next week.