Effort by Anambra State Government to evacuate refuse that has taken over four local Government Areas and desilt the drainages there in, in three days, starting from Saturday to Monday, entered 2nd day Sunday.
Vehicular movement is restricted in some areas to avoid disrupting the exercise especially in Onitsha North and South local Government Areas where mountains of refuse have sacked the residents living within the refuse dump sites.
The Deputy Governor, His Excellency, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim, who led the team for the clean up exercise, was reported to have in the early morning Saturday, 2nd April, 2022, arrived Onitsha for the exercise.
Among the local Government Areas involved include, Ogbaru, Onitsha North and South and Idemili North.
The team first arrived Okpoko, Ogbaru local Government Area, from where they took off to Port Harcourt road, Fegge, Onitsha South, where His Execellency inspected clean up exercise up to Ochanja round-about, where the team encountered disturbing level of waste.
Addressing the crowd who were in jubilant mood on seeing him, the Deputy Governor personally inspecting the clean up exercise, informed them of the Governor’s commitment to ensuring clean and healthy environment, while assuring residents that he would be with them to inspect the clean up until Onitsha and its environs were cleaned.
He warned that, any delay in evacuation of the waste in the commercial city would lead to epidemic, hence the urgency of the exercise.
Ibezim equally reminded them that the citizens of Anambra State employed them to work for them, and that is exactly what the Governor is doing.
On the entourage of the Deputy Governor included the speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Rt Honorable Uche Okafor, Edward Ibuzor, member of Onitsha North II, Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, Commissioner for Environment Designate, Engr Felix Odimegwu, Transition Committee Chairman of Onitsha South, Hon Asoanya Emeka, among other top government functionaries
