Anambra state govt trains over 150 youths for road maintainance

Anambra state govt trains over 150 youths for road maintainance

Anambra State Government has trained over one hundred and fifty youths on road maintenance to repair failed road portions across the 21 local government areas of the state under its zero-tolerance-for-pothole project.

Flagging off the project in Awka the state capital, Governor Willie Obiano assured that the operation-fix-every-pothole project of the state government would soon commence disclosing that the exercise would be sustained with the crop of trained personnel and machinery already mobilized for the project.

The Governor further disclosed that the 150 youths trained would be used to commence the first phase of the project and expressed confidence that more Anambrarians would be employed as soon as other phases of the project begin.
He urged Ndi Anambra to imbibe the culture of cleanliness adding that it is an offence to dump refuse in drainages or other unauthorized places in the state. The Governor charged local government chairmen in the state to identify roads that needed palliative measures in their various council areas for necessary action as well as take ownership of such road projects to ensure sustenance.

Also speaking, the state Commissioner for Works, Chief Lawrence Chinwuba disclosed that of the 150 youths engaged, 50 of them were drawn from each senatorial zone in the state. He enjoined those employed to take the work seriously. Earlier in his address, the Chairman of Awka South Local Government, Prince Azubuike Ilo commended Governor Obiano for embarking on the project which he described as very thoughtful. Prince Ilo expressed hope that the road maintenance project would help to restore the pride of the state as one with the best road network in Nigeria.

Signed, Dr Barr Mrs Uju Nwogu
Hon Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism.