As Nigeria commemorates its sixty-fourth independence anniversary today, a human rights activist and social critique, Chief Obi Ochije-Modilim has called for all hands to be on deck in moving the country to a greater pedestal.

Speaking to the ABS in Awka, Chief Ochije-Modilim regretted that after over six decades of independence, Nigeria with its vast human and material resources cannot provide basic social amenities to its citizenry.

The Social critique who is a community Leader in Awka, bemoaned the high level of abject poverty, hunger, insecurity, unavailability of power supply, potable water, good road network and improved healthcare systems in Nigeria, calling on the government at all levels to redouble their efforts in salvaging the country from its current dungeon.

He called on the federal government and other sub-national governments to borrow a leaf from Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration’s ingenuity in the areas of one youth two skills entrepreneurship programme, free education, free antenatal and delivery services, unprecedented infrastructural developments, prudent management of resources to put the country in the right track.