The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a resolution asking the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to build more Internally Displaced Camps, to enable flood victims in riverine areas to be evacuated during flood.
Following heavy rainfall in the state, The House also passed a resolution asking Soludo to urgently direct the state ministry of works to carry out palliative measures at the dilapidated portions of Oba/Ichi/Nnewi/Amichi/Uga road to ensure the safety and smooth movement of commuters using the roads.
It further passed a resolution asking the governor to mount traffic lights, speed limiters, and road traffic signs at the Agu-Awka and Umunya intersections along the Enugu/Onitsha Expressway for the safety of passengers.
The resolutions were passed during Tuesday’s plenary session presided over by the Speaker, Somtochukwu Udeze, shortly after the motions were moved by three respective house members and were deliberated upon on the floor of the house.
The member representing Ogbaru 1 state constituency, Okpoko, Noble Igwe, who moved the motion for the building of more IDPs, said, “The camps should be built in all the upland local government areas of the state, to enable flood victims in riverine areas be saved from flood disasters, particularly now that the disasters have almost become an annual occurrence.”
The member, representing Ekwusigo constituency, Ikenna Ofodebe, in moving the motion for palliative measures on Oba/Ichi/Nnewi/Amichi/Uga, said, “It is high time the state government commenced the palliative works on the road to enable travellers pass with safety along the roads.”
Ofodebe who is also the Majority Leader of the House, noted that the dilapidated portions of the roads have constituted ambush hideouts where criminals ambush, rob, kidnap, and kill innocent citizens who are traveling along the road.
He added that the bad portions if allowed to remain are capable of causing road carnages.
The member representing Njikoka II constituency, Jude Akpua, in his motion for the mounting of road traffic signs, speed limiters, and traffic lights, recalled that vehicles in motion had a head-on collision in the aforementioned spots as a result of the absence of road traffic signs.
