Dan Opara
The Chairman of Sanitation Committee Imo State, Chief Dr.Godson Ikedi Ohakim,has called on more people from the state, especially well meaning sons and daughters of the state to support the Rebuild Mission led administration of Governor Emeka Ihedioha,to succeed,mostly in the area of sanitation, cleanliness and general environmental.
Chief Ohakim,made this known to the public on Tuesday, July 23rd 2019,while addressing all the newly inaugurated Zonal,LGA,Ward Coordinators and members of the ” Environmental Transformation Commission,ENTRACO”,from across the 27 LGA’s of the state, at the Owerri/Aba Road ENTRACO office.
Ohakim told all those newly appointed as ENTRACO Coordinators,”Your appointment is a call for service to humanity and divinity. Your responsibilities are the biggest one in the state. But, I have decided to work with Gov.Ihedioha in his vision to rebuild Imo. So join me,let’s move ahead on the collective task to Rebuild Our Dear State”.
The former Imo Governor,Dr.Ohakim,who is also the President of “Clean Africa Initiative”, furthermore said that the work to clean up Imo is to rebuild the state,so as to make the state lively, because cleanliness is next to Godliness.
The former Imo Gov. Ohakim,revealed that some prominent individuals from the state and outside the like the immediate past Imo Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, Representative of Alhaji Aliko Dangote,and so many others have commenced their voluntary donations as part of supporting and encouraging the sanitation exercise in Imo State,even as he expressively called on more people from the state to emulate those donors.
He commended all who have devoted themselves to serve in his committee irrespective of their positions in the society, such as:the Imo Commissioner of Police, CP Rabiu Ladodo,the Commander of 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze,and the Imo State Governor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, and so many revered personalities,who have showed their passion for service.
” We are ever ready,prepared to restore Imo. We have at the moment gotten over 470 trucks,70 payloaders and tippers fully equipped to evacuate all kinds of refuses to designated dumps”,Ohakim submitted.
He expressively disclosed that defaulters during the sanitation exercise on Saturday,July 27,shall face the wrath of law via mobile courts.
He pointed out that all Government workers mostly those at the State Secretariat and Govt.House staff shall embark on their own clean-up exercise on Friday, 26th July.Which according to Ohakim, means that the govt.have departmentalized sanitation in Imo.
“You have been inaugurated to serve. Put on all your best.Remember,the cleanest Local Govt. Council or Autonomous Community would be given award as Ambassadors of Cleanliness”,Ohakim said.
Meanwhile, the Imo ENTRACO General Manager,Hon.Alex Emeziem,earlier,while addressing all the newly inaugurated members of Commission from across the state, charged them to be up and doing towards actualizing the major aims in which they where appointed.
Hon.Emeziem,therefore informed them that they would be given the modus operandi to work, even as he disclosed that workshops, seminars and reorientation shall be given unto them.
Adding his voice,the Head of Operations ENTRACO, Hon.Chief Udochukwu Anusiem,aka Oduebube Mbaitoli,expressed satisfaction on the recent achievement so far recorded under his Commission and promised not to let the Commission down. ” We shall put all our efforts in fight against insanity and ensure that Imo state regains her lost glory as the most cleanest State in the country.
