By Juliana Nwachukwu
The Mayor of Onitsha South Local Government Area, Chief Emeka Orji has inspected the ongoing fire service center situated at Silas Works Road,Fegge, Onitsha, to ensure that the work is properly done with the supposed materials and other necessities.
Speaking after the inspection with the Council Legal Adviser Stanley Okafor (Esq), and the Council Secretary, Paul Onuachalla (Esq), the Mayor reiterated that incessant fire outbreak must be brought to the berest minimum.
He also 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.
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.
“It 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.
“I want to also use this medium to advice our people to be very careful on electricity, gas, burning of one thing or the other at unnecessary places and other things that might cause fire outbreak”Orji posited.
In his words, the contractor in charge of the project, Mr. Onyeka Ezebuike, Works Department, Onitsha South Local Government Area disclosed that the project is 80% completion, pointed out that by the beginning of next month, June, it would be completed.
According to Ezebuike, “We are moving, we met a lot of challenges but also tackled them. On the foundation, we met a very terrible topology here, the obstacles were nothing to write home about, a lot of debris, metal, pieces of clothes but we use our professional idea to solve the equation.
“It is not easy at all but we have conquered what we met on the ground, what we saw at the beginning wanted to discourage us but as God may have it, we did our best, trying to put it up,” he said.
- Nwachukwu is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State *
