The Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, has sealed
off some structures sited indiscriminately in Awka, Anambra State
Capital.
Some of the structures sealed off included shanties sited under high
tension poles and cables, those situated in unauthorized areas, fences
that do not meet the zero point-nine meter authorized height, and
environments with overgrown grasses.
The ACTDA team led by the Managing Director, Venerable Amaechi
Okwuosa, directed residents and shop owners in the city to
cut overgrown grasses around their environments within days.
From the main entrance of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University
Teaching Hospital Amaku Awka, where the team kicked off to Agu Awka,
where they wrapped it up with the seal – off of a cooking gas plant
situated inside a petrol gas station, the ACTDA team also issued
seal-off notice to the affected sites and ordered for immediate action
to be taken on them.
The ACTDA boss, Venerable Okwuosa said that most of the affected structures and sites had
been issued warning notes by the Board prior to the day, which
most of them failed to comply.
He said the drive by Governor Willie Obiano’s adminitration to give Anambra
State, especially Awka, the State’s capital, a befitting and world
class aesthetics must be adhered to by the people, and warned that the
Board will not hesitate to sanction anybody involved in indiscriminate constructions that
deface the city.
The Chairman, Anambra state Internal Revenue Service, Doctor David
Nzekwu, who was present to receive the team at the Agu-Awka axis,
commended it for effectively implementing the developmental blueprints of
the capital city, and urged it to make the clamp-down a continuous
action for a bigger result.
A resident of one of the affected structures, Mr. Chika Akabogu, said
the government’s intervention, as challenging as it could be seen by the
those affected was necessary if Awka must attain the dream height.
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