By Juliana Nwachukwu
In his bid to save the embarrassment, delay of all sorts faced by the people of Onitsha South Local Government Area whenever there is fire outbreak, the Mayor of the area, Hon Chief Emeka Orji has procured a fire truck for the people of the area and environs to ensure safety of lives and properties.
Speaking immediately after the arrival of the fire truck at the Local Government Secretariat at Woliwo, Orji pointed out that the constituency has suffered a lot of damages as a result of fire outbreak both in the markets and residential buildings, noting that it touches him whenever such happened.
“This fire truck would also be of help to our neighbors like Onitsha North, Okpoko, Ogbaru LG, Awada, Idemili South, even Asaba, Delta State and others. It is not right to be hearing of fire out breaks here and there and the unavailability of fire fighting trucks, late coming and other reasons.
The mayor reiterated that incessant fire outbreak must be brought to the bearest minimum. He also used the medium to advice residence to be very careful on electricity, gas, burning of one thing or the other and other things that might result to fire outbreak.
According to him, I want to build four fire service centers in Onitsha South Local Government, this one now is in Fegge, the other three would be at Odoakpu, Woliwo and Bridgehead so that it would go round to the four communities in Fegge, I think it would help a lot,” Orji posited.
Juliana is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State
