From Ifeoma Ejiofor
Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC), during her first meeting for the year which held at Council Chamber, has decried human conducts aggravating erosion in the state.
The position of the ANSEC was contained in a press statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Law Mefor (PhD) made available to journalists on Tuesday.
The Council urged communities to take action to prevent sand excavations in undesignated areas of the state, denouncing human behaviour and conduct that have fuelled storm water and gully erosion in the state, which is endangering some communities and transforming the state into an ecologically endangered zone.
He noted that structures without state government approval, particularly those on waterways’ right-of-way, exist at the risk of their owners because they violate the Land Use Act, which vests in the states physical planning responsibility.
Law Mefor also revealed that the Council has approved the contract for the building of a Protocol Lounge at Chinua Achebe International Airport, Umueri, Anambra State, was approved.
The proposal to build the Protocol Lounge at the airport according to him was accepted, and Gill Associates Ltd. was given the contract, which will cost N144 million, and will be completed in seven weeks.
“The memo for the release of N380,600,669.48 for the rehabilitation of all internal roads with a complete asphaltic overlay at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) Amaku, Awka, was also approved by the ANSEC meeting.
“Damtech Nig. Ltd. was given the N140 million contract of creating a responsive master plan for the management of the Aguata Storm Water Project, which is to be finished in three months.
“The memo for the release of the sum of N84,255,318.00 was approved for the completion works at the specialist hospital Fegge, Onitsha South LGA. The contract was awarded to the Crystal Dove Construction Company Ltd,” he concluded .