Ohaneze Ndigbo VP asks FG to declare state of emergency on federal roads in Anambra State and the South-East region in general.
Speaking in Awka, the Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide Chief Damian Okeke Ogene said the federal government should also take decisive action to address the menace of erosion in the region.
Chief Okeke Ogene noted that the recent visit by the Minister of Works Engineer Dave Umahi to Anambra State afforded him the opportunity to see firsthand the deplorable condition of federal roads in the state and devastation wrecked by gully erosion on critical infrastructure as well as need for immediate and sustained interventions.
He regretted that some of the roads constructed some decades ago have continued to suffer neglect without the desired maintenance to prolong their life span.
Chief Okeke Ogene also stressed the need for federal government to maintain stronger collaboration with State governments in designing road projects to ensure that proper environmental impact assessment was conducted before execution of the projects to protect them from avoidable challenges while commending Governor Soludo for living up to his promise of embarking on mass road construction. UPSOT
Also speaking, the Anambra State Chairman of Miners Association of Nigeria Chief Henry Igboeli, enjoined the federal government to accelerate completion of the Second Niger Bridge and the Onitsha -Enugu Expressway because of their strategic importance to socio-economic life of the State, Southeast and Nigeria in general.
Chief Igboeli commended Governor Soludo and the Commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the present drive to diversify the economy, noting that the state is blessed with enough resources which if harnessed will launch the state on the course of sustainable development.
He stressed the need for collective efforts towards protection of the environment and cautioned residents against indiscriminate dumping of waste.
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