Anambra NEWMAP Debunks False Reports on Social Media

JAMES EZE 

The Project Coordinator of the Anambra State office of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), Mr. Mike Ivenso, has dismissed reports floating around on social media with misleading photographs, claiming that the Governor Willie Obiano administration had abandoned the Federal High Court building in Awka, the state capital to the threat of gully erosion as false and mischievous.

In a press release issued in Awka on Wednesday, Mr. Ivenso revealed that “following the declaration of an emergency on the site by His Excellency Governor Willie Obiano, the World Bank Country Director, Dr. Rachid Benmessoud, had led a team to immediately activate the Gully Rapid Action and Slope Stabilization protocol which is an emergency intervention of NEWMAP.”

According to him, Governor Obiano’s intervention led to the speedy commencement of work on the erosion site, assuring that “emergency palliative on the site is nearing completion. What is left is mostly earthwork and grassing which is usually not done during the rainy season to avoid being washed away.”

He further argued that Governor Obiano deserves commendation for demonstrating a clear vision with the creation of “a climate-resilient Anambra State, one community at a time, covering over twenty communities including the dreaded Agulu-Nanka-Oko set of gullies.”

Dismissing the report with amazing photographs that show the completion stage of the Federal High Court Awka erosion site, Mr Ivenso said “the misleading reports obviously are the hand work of mischief-makers who play politics with everything including threat to human lives and have vowed never to see anything good in the Obiano administration.”

It has to be noted that the main opposition group in Anambra has grown desperate lately after a failed bid for power at the centre, dishing out false and misleading reports in a mindless attempt to wrest power from the APGA led government in the state as the gubernatorial election draws closer.