The Anambra state Executive Council has warned that government will arrest and prosecute unscrupulous elements who are selling parts of Mamu Forest Reserve and made clear that Mamu Forest Reserve is not for sale and any property developer or member of the public who allows him or herself to be lured into purchasing parcels of land in the reserve, will have him or herself to blame.
According to a press release by the Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu ,Anambra State Executive Council frowns at the frequent cases of youths incursions into the lands of people who have appropriate government titles, stressing that it is illegal, and can no longer be tolerated and directed relevant law enforcement agencies to immediately arrest such errant youths and prosecute them according to the law, noting that Section six, sub section one of the Prohibition of Fraudulent Practices on Land and Property law of 2012 prohibits illegal collection of fees on lands as follows, where it stated that any person who demands or collects any fee not approved by law from any person who is developing or improving on an already existed property in the State shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for five years or to a fine of five hundred thousand naira or both.
The Council expressed satisfaction that effort to rid the state roads and streets’ corners of refuse is beginning to yield some results and urged households and the general public to desist from indiscriminate refuse disposal and disclosed that Anambra State Waste Management Agency, ASWAMA, is gradually transiting to door-to-door refuse collection and anybody found disposing refuse at unauthorized locations will be promptly sanctioned.
The release added that to further improve the quality of health care delivery in the State, government through the Ministry of Health has placed a vacancy advert two months ago for medical consultants and officers, pharmacists, nurses, radiographers, medical laboratory scientists and technicians and the ANSEC has directed the Commissioner for Health to interview the four thousand, four hundred applicants who applied for the jobs so that they would be immediately employed and deployed to state health care facilities.
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