Ochanja Market Onitsha and its environs stood still as the state government embarked on massive desilting of drainage channels along various roads and streets within the area.
The official flag-off of the exercise attracted top government functionaries as well as Chief Erokwu, who represented Igwe Alfred Achebe of Onitsha, among others.
The state’s Deputy Governor, Dr Onyekachi Ibezim, accompanied by the state Commissioner for Information, Honourable Paul Nwosu and the Transition Committee Chairman, Onitsha South Council Area, Honourable Emeka Orji among others, visited various roads and streets where the exercise was ongoing.
They visited Iweka Road, Ziks Avenue, Creek Road Fegge and Nwangene River by Bida Road among others.
Expressing satisfaction at the rate of work done so far on these channels, Deputy Governor Ibezim called for collective efforts of all stakeholders in the state to ensure clean, green and sustainable Anambra State.
While reiterating the present administration’s determination to restore free flow of flood across the state Deputy Governor Ibezim stressed that cleanliness should be everybody’s business and called for the support of Ndi Anambra to actualize Governor Soludo’s dream.
He disclosed that massive work is ongoing at Okpoko Sakamori which according to him will be desilted down to Otumoye and Nwangene Rivers down to River Niger.
The state Commissioner for Environment, Honorable Felix Odimegwu, said that similar exercise will be replicated across the twenty-one local government areas of the state.
He disclosed that government has directed Environmental Health Officials in the state to arrest and prosecute residents, whose drainage channels are not clean.
In their separate speeches a Catholic Priest from Onitsha South Local Government Area, Reverend Father Christian Onuekwusi and Ochanja Central Market Chairman, Chief Bonaventure Onu, expressed joy at the governor’s visit to the area and commended his people-oriented policies for a better and clean Anambra.
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