Jubilation As Soludo Inspects Completed Port Harcourt & Niger Street Roads

JULIANA NWACHUKWU 

It was jubilation galore at Port Harcourt Road and Niger Street, Fegge, Onitsha South Local Government Area, Anambra State, on Friday, as Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, while inspecting the completed Port Harcourt road, had a brief town hall meeting with Fegge Landlords and residents.

Addressing the residents, the governor expressed dissatisfaction with inter-state buses blocking drainages and directed a five-meter clearance from the drainages.

He vowed to make Fegge “the best neighbourhood anyone can live in” and announced that a new General Hospital would be built and completed before the end of the year.

In his bid to encourage green, clean and sustainable environment, he also announced N18 million for three cleanest and greenest streets, adding that the best street will smile home with N10million, second best to go home with N5million while the third will get N3million.

A partnership with landlords for property beautification was proposed, offering subsidized paint through “made-in-Anambra” manufacturers.

The governor assured of provision of transformers to be installed next week to address power supply issues caused by overloading and introduction of prepaid meters alongside the transformers.

“Solar power solutions will be implemented in the Anambra Fruit and Vegetable Market Ogbaru to address electricity shortages,” Soludo further stated.

Governor Soludo pledged to upgrade the Anambra Fruit and Vegetable Market,Ogbaru aiming to make it one of the biggest in the state.

Earlier, the Transition Committee Chairman of Onitsha South, Hon. Emeka Joseph Orji, expressed gratitude for Governor Soludo’s commitment to development, citing the completed construction of Port-Harcourt road and Niger Street.

In his contribution, the caretaker committee chairman of Bridge Head market, Hon. Chinedu Ezekwike Akweke, disclosed that the market benefited from the construction of the two major roads, (Port Harcourt road and Niger street) that lead to the market.

He commended the contractor that constructed the Port Harcourt road for extending the road into the market through Oduwanu street even as he commended the Governor for the rapid infrastructural development of the State.

According to him APGA-led government has been up and doing in the infrastructural development of the state especially in the areas of roads rehabilitation, employment through one youth two skills initiative, among others.

Among the dignitaries that graced the occasion were; the Speaker, Anambra House of Assembly, Rt Hon Somtochukwu Udeze, Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, Chief of Staff, Mr Ernest Ezeajughi, Chief of Protocol and Deputy Chief of Staff, Chinedu Nwoye Glamour.

Others were; Commissioner for Environment, Dr Felix Odimegwu, MD Aswama Mike Ozoemena, Chairman, Anambra Urban Regeneration Council, Arc. Mike Okonkwo, Caretaker Chairman Onitsha North Local Government Area, Hon Charles Ozoma, among others.