The State Director, National Orientation Agency,NOA, Anambra State Directorate, Awka, Barrister Charles Nwoji, has described the environmental campaign cum policy of the Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo led government in the State as very commendable.
Barrister Nwoji who stated this when he led some management officers of the Agency on advocacy visit to the Commissioner for Environment, Chief Felix Odimegwu in his office at Jerome Udorji Secretariat Awka, also commended the good job the Ministry of Environment is doing in Anambra State.
The NOA boss, who said that the activities of the Ministry were very critical in the State, maintained that environmental issues play a very crucial role in the activities of the Agency in the Society.
He urged the Commissioner to bring any identified unauthorized waste mismanagement to NOA so that it would take it to appropriate authority through the sensitization programmes of the Agency in the State.
Barrister Nwoji equally advised the Commissioner to consider the services of the officers of the WAI Brigade in the State as necessary in waste management in the State, especially during the monthly environmental exercise.
Welcoming the NOA State Director, Barrister Nwoji and his team in his office, Chief Felix Odimegwu, said that it is very important for the Ministry to develop a synergy with NOA in the State.
He said that it is very critical for the Ministry to work with NOA on its orientation programs, adding that the Ministry has areas of collaboration with NOA in the State.
The Commissioner recalled that they came into office when everywhere in the State was filled with wastes,stressing that the present government in the State is making every effort to get the State back to its glory.
He stated that Governor Chukwuma Soludo has developed a very favourable policy to make the State liveable, pointing out that sensitization of the people was key in achieving the great feat in the State.
He added that the State government has perfected plans towards desilting the New Market Road in Onitsha which he said was recently submerged by flood and condemned the attitude of people who build houses on water channels thereby hindering the free flow of flood water.
The Deputy Director in charge of Programmes in the National Orientation Agency Awka, Sir Joseph Uchendu, thanked the Commissioner for the warm reception accorded them, assuring him that the leadership of the Agency would not hesitate in making members of the WAI Brigade available for him to speak with in order to ascertain where they would fit in, in the war against environmental degradation in the State.
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