Government of Anambra State has announced plans to remove illegal structures defacing the environment beyond Onitsha to other parts of the state in the coming weeks.
This was part of resolutions at the Anambra State Executive Council Meeting, held at Government House, Awka.
According to a Post-ANSEC release by the Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, land belonging to many community secondary and primary schools have been massively encroached on by some host communities and developers which he said is unacceptable, stressing that government is seriously looking to recover the portions of land. The release added that as part of measures, to achieve this within the ambits of the law, government is seeking to quickly amend land laws so that land grabbing will be criminalized.
It further noted that as a responsive government, ANSEC has set up a committee to review payment claims by contractors of the previous administration to ascertain if the contracts were awarded in line with due process and if they were completed or not, among others.
According to the release, the Anambra State Finance Commissioner Mr Ifeatu Onejeme is the Chairman of the Committee while the Committee has till September to complete its work.
It further explained that having discovered that some native doctors provide charm with which gunmen operate, it has become necessary to enumerate and register them as practitioners and categorise them into herbalists and spiritualists, noting that
while government appreciates that some of them add value to healthcare, it is also not unaware that they have helped to imbue these criminals with the dare-devil confidence that has driven them into committing despicable crimes as kidnapping, extortion of ransom, beheading among others, adding that where they are found culpable in such crimes, it will be easy to fish them out from the register.
The release said that during the meeting also, a revenue committee was constituted, comprising the Chairman of Anambra Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Richard Madiebo, Commissioner for Market and Industry, Dr. Obinna Ngonadi, Special Adviser to the Governor , Medicals and Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Godwin Nnadozie as well as Managing Director, Information Communication Technology Agency, Mr Chukwuemeka Agbata, with the responsibility to disaggregate the various revenue waste management through the demand notices issued in order to determine where greater effort would be channeled.
It also disclosed that that following the last teachers’ Computer Based Test, a total of 6,250 candidates have been shortisted, made up of 3,250 for Primary Schools and 3,000 for Secondary Schools and disclosed that the oral interview has been scheduled to commence on the 27th of July, 2022 and will last for two weeks.
The release explained that the interviews which will come in batches will hold at Igwebuike Grammar School Awka; St John of God Secondary School and Awka and ASUBEB headquarters , Awka.
Highpoint of the ANSEC meeting was presentation of a souvenir from the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, through the Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment and Tourism, Mr Don Onyenyi.
The envoy’s is expected to visit Anambra state again later in October where it is planned that he will set up a Cultural Centre in the state.
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