The Anambra State Commissioner for Culture, Tourism and Entertainment, Comrade Don Onyenji, and his entourage have inspected the Osukude, Osinigwe waterfalls and Oliolio stream, all in Nsugbe, Anambra East Local Government Area.
speaking after the inspection, Comrade Onyenji noted that the exercise is part of the exploration, profiling, documentation and the process of developing heritage sites in the state, which were approved by Governor Chukwuma Soludo.
He said that the on-the-spot assessment of the place is aimed at making it a tourist site where people can visit, look around and see life in its natural state from all parts of the world.
The Commissioner noted that after the inspection, government will move into private public community partnership with the Nsugbe community to develop a framework on how to modernize the sites, as envisioned in the agenda of the Governor Soludo administration.
Comrade Onyenji revealed that there are over one hundred tourist sites submitted by communities in the state, and called on other communities that have tourist sites to submit such to the ministry with a view to developing them.
The Special Adviser to Governor Soludo on Legal Matters, Barrister Tochukwu Nweke, disclosed that the waterfall, which is naturally pure and safe for drinking has been running without seizing from time immemorial, and promised that Nsugbe community will give the state government all the necessary support it required to develop the site.
According to the President General of Nsugbe Development Union, Dr. Robert Ezeanwu, the waterfall has been running for over one thousand three hundred years, and noted that when developed, will create jobs and bring revenue for the state.
At Oliolio stream where the ABS news crew saw varieties of fish, it was said by members of the community that the fishes are forbidden from consumption.
Commissioner Onyenji and his entourage later paid courtesy call to the traditional ruler of Nsugbe, Igwe Victor Ntooka.
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