By Juliana Nwachukwu :
The Chairman of Onitsha South Local Government Area, Anambra State, Chief Emeka Orji, has said that he would establish water transportation to ease especially the transportation problem of rural people in evacuation of their farm produce even as he vowed to uplift the infrastructural development.
“I am coming up with a program for water transportation, I am planning to build jetties for water transportation to convey people from Onitsha to Asaba, Anambra East and West areas as well as to other hinterlands.”
He made the vow while speaking to newsmen in his office, noting that for him to achieve this that he has already Kickstarted the construction of a modern general hospital for the people in the area at the former location of Urban Boys Secondary School Fegge.
Chief Orji pledged that in no distant time the project will be completed, explaining that he is designing his developmental plans in line with the state government development agenda even as he said that he will establish four major fire stations which will be scattered in four major areas of the council area.
He named the areas to include, Bridgehead, Fegge, Ochanja and Odoakpu, adding that as days roll by, he will be unfolding a lot of developmental programs that are going to impact positively on the people in the council area.
*Juliana is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State