Anambra: Council Chairman Inspects Building Projects, Orders For Access Road, Quality Job
By Julie Sylvia, Onitsha
The caretaker committee chairman of Onitsha South Local Government Area, Anambra State, Hon. Emeka Orji, Thursday, inspected the rebuilding of shops at Tools section of the Onitsha Bridge head market, Anambra State, and ordered that access road be created to enable vehicular movement in and out of the market.
He also ordered that the owners of the shops should ensure that the project is carried out with quality materials, warning that work should stop on the project if it is not done in line with Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s resolve for quality job.
“Out of the three blocks of the buildings you are carrying out, two are of specification and standard as contained in the master plan, but the other is not being carried out according to the plan. The project should be of standard quality as demanded by His Excellency, Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
“What we want is quality job, you should also create access road in the first block, like you did in the two others for easy access in case of emergency. The iron rod you used in building the two blocks that interfaced have quality iron rods but the iron rods in the lone block has lesser quality and should be replaced with quality ones,” he stated.
In his response, the chairman, Panel of Inquiry into the remote and immediate causes of fire disaster at Drug (Ogbogwu) Bridge head market, comrade Peter Okala, commended the chairman for being physically present to inspect the building projects despite his tight schedules.
He pledged on behalf of the traders that, “The project will be carried out as specified to meet the standard as is in the master plan, to please the Governor who in his magnanimity, endorsed for the building of the shops,” he assured.
He recalled that the owners of the shops under construction were those who gave out their shops for demolition to create access for excavator machine to gain entrance to the scene of the inferno that occurred on November 8, 2022, in the drug market and stopped it from escalating.
Contributing, the Chairman, Stakeholders, Bridge head Traders Association, Chief Bonaventure Ucheagwu, thanked God for State Governor’s intervention on the victims of the fire disaster who are now happy again after six months.
“Today the caretaker committee chairman came and inspected the ongoing work and gave some directives, we observe them and promised to do it accordingly, to the way the government wants it.
I thank the new Panel committee on fire disaster who promised to work as directed .
“I want to plead to the state government to first consult the Onitsha South caretaker committee chairman whenever they want to offer any appointment to anybody within the area because he is closer to the people, and also knows who is capable than those who do that from Awka,” he pleaded.
Mr Charles Ezenwanne, Bridgehead youth leader, said, “Honestly speaking, we will work to specification. It is for the betterment of everybody, if we allow the government to do it for us it will be very costly,. We plead that we will redress it the way they directed,” he assured.
Speaking,, a patron of Federal line, Chief Kelvin Ibelo, who is also one of the panel Committee members, on fire disaster, said that Hon. Emeka Orji, deserved 99 per cent for inspection of the building project
“His inspection and observation here showed that he knows what is good and bad. The committee will meet with the owners of the shops and the engineer for a neater work,” he pledged.
It will be recalled that eight people died during the inferno and properties estimated into millions of naira destroyed.
