A handbook that will aid construction and maintenance of already constructed roads in the state has been unveiled in Neni Anaocha council area.
Also, Neni Road Maintenance Agency NERMA, has been inaugurated.
Works correspondent Ngozi Obileri reports that Governor Willie Obiano performed the function at Neni.
Inaugurating the Neni Road Maintenance Agency, Governor Willie Obiano represented by the Commissioner for Works, Engineer Marcel Ifejiofor announced that pot holes will soon be a thing of the past in the state.
Governor Obiano commended Ndi Neni for taking it upon themselves to ensure that all villages in the town have tarred roads and thanked especially the late proprietor of TONIMAS, Chief Anthony Enukeme, for constructing over eighteen kilometers of roads in the community.
According to the Governor, having almost twenty-five kilometers of roads constructed in a community has never been recorded anywhere except Neni.
He said that the present administration is ready to support any community that complements state government in road construction.
The Governor noted that the hand book contained all state government needs in terms of model of maintaining the roads especially when the pot holes are at the early stages.
Earlier while presenting the hand book, the Chairman Committee on Neni Road Maintenance Agency, Engineer Paul Enidom of Paul B construction company said he carefully detailed the model to aid road construction and maintenance as he said that part of the content of the model provides that every community that needs tarred road must be ready to maintain such road after construction.
Engineer Enidom enumerated part of the arrangements listed in the handbook to include a two thousand naira road maintenance levy on every man in Neni, while affluent members of the community have a duty to construct at least one kilometer of road and make more donations for the maintenance.
He appealed to Anambra state government to enact a law that will be named late Chief Anthony Enukeme law on Road Maintenance as a way of immortalizing him.
Speaking at the event, one of the sons of late Chief Enukeme, Mr Nkene Enukeme, who extolled the move to establish NERMA in Neni, advised Ndi Neni not to relax on the fact that his father did a lot of roads in the community but to continue from where he stopped until all the roads in the community are tarred.
Earlier in a remark, the Chairman of the occasion Chief Ikenna Okafor, applauded Neni community for helping government in road construction charging all communities of the state to emulate them for more developments to thrive.
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