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  • 29 escape death in Anambra multiple crash

    Twenty-nine persons at the weekend, escaped death in a multiple auto crash in Amawbia, Awka, Anambra State.

    The accident which happened on the Onitsha-bound lane of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway, involved two white colored Toyota Hiaces with registration numbers ENU 82 ZE and XB 509 AHD, respectively.

    Eight persons reportedly sustained injuries following a head-on collision by the two commercial vehicles.

    Confirming the incident, Sector Commander of FRSC in the state, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, said 29 persons, including 13 males and 16 females were involved in the accident.

    He said no death was recorded in the crash.

    Kumapayi disclosed that the injured were rushed to hospital for medical attention by the command rescue team that arrived the scene few minutes after the incident.

    He said, “There was a crash involving two vehicles at Amawbia, opposite NIPCO filling station this afternoon.

    “Twenty-nine persons were involved but eight persons, four males and four females sustained injuries.

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    “They have been rushed to the hospital and obstructions cleared by FRSC rescue team who arrived accident scene early.”

    Attributibg the crash to route violation, the sector commander warned motorists to desist from driving against traffic on dual carriage roads.

    “Route violation remains a traffic offence and culprits would be arrested and punished accordingly,” the FRSC boss warned.

  • Four ‘one chance’ robbery syndicates nabbed by police in Anambra

    THE Anambra State Police Command has arrested four persons suspected to be ‘one chance ‘robbery syndicates in Awka.

    They were apprehended 8.40pm on Friday  by puff adder operatives in conjunction with the patrol team attached to B’ division Awka while on stop and search duties along Ifite road .

    This was confirmed on Saturday to The Nation by the state Police Public Relations Officer PPRO, Mr Mohammed Haruna.

    Haruna said they were intercepted while operating in a shuttle bus with registration number FGG 38 ZX.

    The suspects were Nonso Okakpu (Driver of the shuttle bus) aged 39, Vincent Nweke ‘m’ aged 25, Onyebuchi, aged 20 and Emmanuel Paul Udeh aged 20

    Read Also: Fire incident kills 66-year-old woman in Anambra

    Some of the items recovered from them included one locally made double barrel pistol and another fabricated double barrel pistol and one locally made revolver pistol.

    Others were, four live .9mm ammunition, one expended .9mm ammunition, five live cartridges, five Infinitix hot-5 phones, one tecno phone, one nokia phone, one XQ Mobile phone ,One Q-UP Mobile phone, one TKK phone, assorted charms and cash sum of 11,740 only.

    According to him, “the syndicate specialised in robbing innocent students of their phones, snatching of cars and other valuables. Already some of the victims have been contacted through their phones and are trooping to the station to reveal circumstances surrounding their predicaments.”

    He said the case was under investigation after which suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.

     

  • Fire incident kills 66-year-old woman in Anambra

    A 66-year-old woman, Mrs. Okwuogu Veronica, was on Saturday burnt to death in a fire incident in Awka, Anambra State. The incident took place at about 10:30am in a quarter behind MACDONS Amuda village Awka in Awka South Local government area.

    The state police command confirmed the incident to The Nation on Saturday in Awka, through the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Mohammed Haruna.

    The PPRO further said the corpse had been deposited at the morgue, while autopsy would be carried out. He said investigation was still on going to ascertain the causes surrounding the fire incident.

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    According to Haruna, “Police patrol team attached to Central Police Station Awka visited the scene and cordoned off the area to prevent looters from taking advantage of the situation to loot.

    “However, one Mrs. Okwuogu Veronica Chinwe, aged about 66 years, was trapped in the inferno and sustained various degrees of burns.

    She was rushed to Regina Caeli Hospital for treatment, but was certified dead on arrival by the medical doctor. The corpse has been deposited at the hospital morgue for autopsy. Meanwhile, cause of the fire incident is yet unknown and investigation is ongoing to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident.”

     

  • Two drivers nabbed for stealing boss’ car in Anambra

    Two drivers have been arrested by the police for allegedly stealing a car belonging to their boss in Onitsha, Anambra state.

    The suspects, Ifeanyi Jude and Okwudili Okoli were said to be drivers attached to a monarch in the commercial city of the state.

    The Nation gathered that the suspects conspired to steal the car where it was parked in the monarch’s residence.

    Confirming the incident, police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed said the arrests were made by police detectives attached to Central Police Station Onitsha in collaboration with Federal Highway Patrol team attached to Enugu State Police Command.

    He said the case was being investigated.

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    He said: “The suspects conspired with one Okwudili Okoli, 30, and stolen a Toyota Corolla car with Registration Number HRH -01-NEN belonging to His Royal Highness, Igwe of Adazi Ani Community, Robert Nwankwo in his compound at No.1 Niger Drive GRA Onitsha.

    “The suspects who are drivers attached to the Igwe (monarch) initially are denied having any knowledge of such incident when the vehicle was stolen until the principal suspect Ifeanyi Jude was intercepted with the vehicle along Nsukka road Enugu State before he confessed and also indicted his accomplice.”

    Mohammed added: “Consequently, following Intelligence report, a Lexus ES 300 car with registration number ENU 654 NX stolen from one Okafor Cyril Chima of No.4 Oforma Street, Enugu, was also recovered at No.5 Achalla Street Nkpor by detectives attached to Ogidi Police Division.

    “Vehicle was stolen at the complainant’s residence. Efforts are being intensified to get the suspect arrested and bring him to Justice.”Emma Elekwa, Onitsha

  • Anambra rids Nnewi of beggars

    The Anambra State government has begun clearing and relocating beggars from the streets of Nnewi, the industrial hub of the state, to sanitize the state.

    The raid is carried out by joint task forces from the Ministries of Social Welfare, Children and Women Affairs and Transport.

    The action is also aimed at allowing the easy flow of traffic, and to enhance the city’s aesthetic beauty.

    No fewer than seven women and 25 children from Ezzah, Ebonyi State, were arrested by the task force led by Commissioners from both ministries, Lady Ndidi Mezue and Mr. Uchenna Okafor.

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    Lady Mezue lamented some women who use their wards for alms, thereby exposing them to harsh conditions. She restated the government’s commitment in sanitizing the state of beggars and miscreants.

    Some of the arrested beggars said they resorted to begging due to financial problems and urgent need to make a living.

    The arrested beggars were brought to Awka, the state capital, where the adults would be rehabilitated and the children enrolled in schools.

  • Anambra to build N120m rehabilitation centre

    The Anambra State government will build a N120 million worth drug rehabilitation centre as part of efforts to end drug abuse.

    Governor Willie Obiano, who spoke at the Prof. Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Centre in Awka during the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug trafficking, lamented that illicit drug had destroyed many children.

    Obiano, who was represented by Executive Secretary of the Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme Dr Simeon Onyemaechi also urged security operatives to stop using drugs, especially while on duty. He said: “what will you teach your children who you call the leaders of tomorrow?”

    Read Also: Man electrocuted in Anambra

    The governor, who said the state was partnering the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to fight the monster, directed secondary schools yet to establish a drug-free club to do so in two weeks.

    State Commander of the NDLEA Sule Momodu praised Obiano for being a partner in progress.

    He, however, said the agency had a serious challenge because the youths see smoking Cannabis Sativa as a normal way of life.

    He lamented that the drug abuse had been the reason for the increase in crime. Momodu added that all hands must be on deck to the menace.

  • Man electrocuted in Anambra

    A suspected cable vandal was electrocuted on Sunday while attempting to vandalise an armoured cable at Ezinifite, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    The deceased, whose name could not be ascertained as at last night, attempted to remove the armoured cable when the wire exploded and electrocuted him.

    The installation is owned by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC).

    Police spokesperson Haruna Mohammed said the suspect died on the spot.

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    He said: “About 7am today, there was a report at Aguata Police Station, through the vigilance commander in Ezinifite that a suspected cable vandal, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, wanted to vandalise one of their EEDC transformer installation at Ezinifite.

    “But he was unlucky as the cable exploded and electrocuted him instantly. Police patrol team, led by the DPO of Aguata division, SP Ayeni Oluwadare, visited the scene and the vandal was rushed to the General Hospital in Aguata where he was confirmed dead on arrival.

    “Meanwhile, the EEDC office was contacted, body photographed and deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.”

    Mohammed added that investigation had begun to ascertain the vandal’s identity and circumstances surrounding the incident.

  • Barbarians in the House

    In the days of the Owu chief, a stink was inaugurated. He endorsed a kangaroo act in the Plateau State House of Assembly in which six out of 24 members of the House impeached a governor. By that farce, the Obasanjo PDP had sanctified a rogue process.

    It told Nigerians a legislative monster of that sort could pass muster. Lawmakers took notice. It signalled the end of a governor and the genesis of turbulence in Plateau State that has taken the coming of Governor Simon Lalong to quell.

    But the stink has already pervaded our politics. We saw it in Anambra State, and Oyo State, ever turbulent, embossed its own signature of impunity before Ajimobi’s era. The trend went national, though. The APC members of betrayal teamed with the minority party to overthrow the party process and worked with the clerk to elect Bukola “Eleyinmi” Saraki as Senate president. The rot continued.

    Like effluent in the sewer, it has remained in our legislative unconscious. Fast forward to June 2019. First in Edo State, the drama of the absurd. Governor Godwin Obaseki canonised a House where nine, some say 11, members out of 24 met and elected a speaker and his deputy.  So absurd was it that one of them came sartorially unprepared in a pair of shorts. A hurried impunity.

    A few days later, Bauchi State caught the contagion. In the case of Edo State, the party was divided against itself. The Bauchi episode replayed the Saraki script. Eight PDP members colluded with two APC men and the sole member of the New Nigeria People’s Party to elect an APC man as speaker and a PDP man as deputy, just as Saraki and Ekweremadu paired in that dawn of Abuja conspiracy. APC in words, PDP indeed. Just like Obaseki, Governor Bala Mohammed inaugurated a house of barbarians.

    The Edo drama has pitched the state governor Obaseki against his anointer and national chairman Adams Oshiomhole. Adams said what happened in Edo ran counter to republican principles. I agree. The Governor defended himself by an appeal to state party supremacy. Speaking through his spokesman, Obaseki said Adams countervailed the principle of natural justice. I laughed at such grandiloquent appeal to high ideals to support a gangster act.

    If Obaseki yielded to party supremacy, he was kowtowing to a hierarchy of miscreants. Was he telling the country and the good citizens of Edo State that democracy is a Hobbesian enclave? He is supping with the devil of tyranny. Has he forgotten that as governor, he is the leader of the party? Why is he hiding under party supremacy of barbarians? Does he not know that he makes himself into a political jellyfish by inaugurating an illegality and hiding under the cover of the people, a raft of party apparatchiks who bow and tremble before him every day because he controls the state’s mammon of unrighteousness? Is he hoodwinking us? Obaseki cannot even have the boldness, however shameless, to take responsibility for his action.

    He has had a lacklustre tenure so far, but if he wants theatre, it better entertain and ennoble us rather than appeal to what theorist of drama call the absurd. Shakespeare, Rotimi, Soyinka have quite a few of them. Bringing such alawada acts into governance does not enshrine republican ideals. It holds it up to mockery.

    Even during the days of Adams as governor in 2014, the Jonathan men split the House because Adams was not playing fool to the mavens of the PDP in Edo State. I called it “presidential meddlesomeness” on Channels Television’s Sunrise show. Today, it is gubernatorial meddlesomeness in Edo. The guilty man is Godwin Obaseki.

    The Bauchi story is a case of a minority governor who wants to use a strong arm to impose his will. Governor Mohammed ought to be careful. He has less than 10 men in the house who want him. He is flirting with impeachment Damocles. He may not know it. The people who made it possible for him to mount the throne cannot stop the legislators from coming down on him. But more importantly, the Bauchi story is about an APC flirting with political self-immolation. The APC, especially kingpins in the centre, did not like the former governor. In plotting his fall, they may have lit the tinder of party implosion. It will be interesting to see how events will unfold in the coming months.

    In Edo and Bauchi, we are witnessing the sore wounds of political malice. And none of it has to do with the high calling of democracy. They are the sort of problems that come from planting the wrong seed. Its contagion is what we have today. In his novel, The Plague, the French writer Albert Camus shows how rottenness can overtake a society that allows the wrong ideas and attitudes  to fester. In Central London in the 1850’s, what became known as the Great Stink overwhelmed the city. The sewer was clogged with human waste and industrial effluent and the tranquil and blue beauty of the River Thames we know today was a miasma of waste that discharged smell and gave the people cholera. The famous scientist Michael Faraday described in a letter to the The Times thus: “”Near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds so dense that they were visible at the surface, even in water of this kind. … The smell was very bad, and common to the whole of the water; it was the same as that which now comes up from the gully-holes in the streets; the whole river was for the time a real sewer.”

    That is the sort of problem that city bore. The parliament was forced to act when the odour choked them in session. The great legislative stink did not start today. In Poland of the Middle Ages, a writer called the parliamentary rabble, “a divinely ordained confusion.”

    A parliament is the church of democracy. It should not become cult of mayhem.

     

    Drones for drones

    AS we contemplate the fire and fury of banditry in the country, an opportunity has presented itself with the election of Simon Lalong as chair of the Northern Governors Forum. He set up a formula for peace in his state that his peers copied. His colleagues will do well to encase it into the battle plan against the hoodlums of gore in the region.

    No plan is perfect, but if he was able to turn it for most part to the good, it calls for optimism. Yet, he needs the centre to help with resources, especially in the area of technology. Technology is the great counterfoil to evil in this age. It is a weapon we can deploy either for war or for peace. Ekiti and Ondo States now use drones to comb the forests. In Ogun State alone, Imoke Forest is as vast as the city of Ibadan, and the Opara forest is three times as big. We cannot flush the brigands out the old way. Yet the forests in the north are more numerous, sometimes vaster and more lethal. So, Gov. Lalong will need modern drones, of the sort that Iran shot down to dare Trump. It will combat the drones of the forests, lazy men hiding under faith and tribe to commit murder. With Lalong’s strategy and Federal-sponsored technology, the brigands will be yesterday’s wound. It is drones against the drones.

     

  • APGA: Oye moves to save party in Anambra, Abia

    Ripples over early agitation for zoning ahead of 2021 governorship election in Anambra State and the worsening party leadership tussle in Abia State are some of the sources of concern for the Victor Oye-led National leadership of All Progressives Grand Alliance, even as Oye struggles to re-establish his leadership of the party, reports Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu

    Although the 2021 Governorship Election in Anambra State is still more than a year away, the battle for the succession of Governor Willie Obiano has not only kicked off but it has, again, thrown up zoning agitation for the plum office.

    Insiders said within the ruling party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the early emergence of agitation for zoning ahead of the 2021 governorship election may have put the Obiano-led state government under unforeseen pressure.

    For example, some party stakeholders and other concerned observers raised eyebrows last week when Hon. Uche Okafor, a lawmaker from Obiono’s zone, emerged the new Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly. His emergence rekindled agitation for equitable distribution of political offices among the component parts of the state. This sentiment, an insider said, was because Okafor, a two term lawmaker, represents Ayamelum State Constituency, in the Anambra North, the same senatorial zone that Governor Obiano comes from.

    Before the constitution of the current Anambra State’s Assembly, it was speculated that the new Speaker of the House would come from the South Senatorial Zone, since Governor Obiano is from the North while the Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke, is from the Central. So, Okafor’s emergence, The Nation learnt became a subject of disagreement outside the Assembly even as some top agitators for equitable distribution of offices re-echoed complaints over zoning. Uchenna Onyeoma, an APGA grassroots supporter this week expressed his disappointment over the development in a chat with The Nation. According to him, “We all took it for granted that the office of the Speaker should go to the South, since the North and the Central already have the First and Second citizens respectively. In fact, many APGA chieftains told us that Hon. Pachal Agbodike, who represents Ihiala II State Constituency, was coasting home to emerge the Speaker. Everything changed suddenly when Hon. Okafor emerged unopposed and Agbodike became the Deputy Speaker. We hear that some careful political permutations may have been responsible for this development, but I must be honest with you, in the grassroots, where I belong, this sharing arrangement has sent a wrong signal. We in the South Senatorial Zone are worried.”

    Perhaps to calm frayed nerves in Anambra State, the national leadership of APGA last week Thursday said it had zoned the position of Anambra State governor in the 2021 election to Anambra South Senatorial District.

    The party’s National Chairman, Dr Victor Oye, who made this declaration in a statement, also acknowledged that the state governor, Willie Obiano, is from Anambra North, while his predecessor, Peter Obi, is from Anambra Central but explained that the emergence of Okafor, now that the North and Central presently produce the governor and the deputy governor is aimed at ensuring that the South produces the next governor in 2021.

    According to Oye, “the party was conscious of the governorship zoning arrangement in the state, hence the reason the new Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Uche Okafor, who was picked from Anambra North where Obiano hails from.

    “The decision to zone the position to the Northern part of the state arose from the simple fact that our party had earlier zoned the governorship position in 2021 to the South Senatorial District,” the statement read in part.

    The Nation gathered during the week that the issue of zoning, which was reawakened by the emergence of the new Speaker is also causing ripples in the other political parties eying the governor’s seat in 2021.

    Since the emergence of the current governor, Willie Obiano, when the then outgoing governor of the state, Peter Obi, insisted that it would only be fair to zone the governorship seat to the Northern zone that had up till then never produced a governor in the state, zoning has remained a major issue in the state.

    But reacting to allegation that Obi was the architect of the politics of zoning in Anambra State, Val Obienyem, media aide to the former state governor, said in a press statement in April that the former governor did not introduce zoning of the governorship position in Anambra State.

    According to him, “Obi only intervened in 2013 when equity demanded that the Anambra North Senatorial District should produce the next governor of the state because the area had not produced a governor since 1991 when the state was created.

    He explained that it was necessary “to distinguish between Obi supporting a zone to produce a governor of the state because of equity and creating a zoning arrangement for the governorship of the state.

    “The former Governor of Anambra State and the PDP vice presidential candidate in the last election, Mr Peter Obi, did not introduce nor contemplate introducing zoning in the governorship elections in Anambra State,” Obienyem said.

    According to him, what happened in 2013 was more “in the spirit of justice and equity.

    “It was more of Obi trying to achieve balance of representation to avoid what was clearly unjust and capable of snowballing into a crisis for the state,” he added even as he condemned what he described as reference to Obi by some elements whenever divisive issues came up.

    PDP, APC, OTHERS WATCH DEVELOPMENT

    We learnt that other leading political parties in the state are studying the recent pronouncement of Oye-led APGA, even as some stakeholders in the state are pushing for the political parties to jettison zoning in their search for the governorship candidate in the forthcoming election. It is on record that many PDP chieftains have continued to push that merit should be counted above zoning in the forthcoming election.

    For example, Chief Obiora Okonkwo, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Anambra State told The Nation in a recent interview that he is amused by calls by some politicians to zone the office of governor in Anambra State. “Indeed, I do feel amused by that because it is only selfish politicians in Anambra State that will be canvassing for zoning for the position of governor, especially with the state of fatal paralysis we now have. Don’t get me wrong, zoning for me is okay where it is to create a balance and equity. But, that can be done only in non-consequential positions, not for governor. And by the way, what are you zoning in Anambra State? We should be talking about one state, one people, one development. Anambra is a homogenous state. We speak the same dialect. We have the same faith – Christianity hundred percent. The territorial mass of Anambra State is just like a ranch in Texas. There is not much that divides people in that state. We like the same food; we wear the same type of cloth.

    But, it’s not only politicians that are canvassing for zoning; the Anglican Bishops are also canvassing for zoning. They want the governorship zoned to Anglicans.”

    Most of the young advocates of an end to zoning in the state say even the Southern Senatorial District had been represented by former Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, who was the second executive governor of the state after Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife who hails from Igbo Ukwu. According Okechukwu Madu, “It is wrong to argue that the South has not produced a governor. The truth is that we should by now talk about competence, not zoning, since all the zones; the North, South and Central have produced governors in the state.”

    EMERGENCE OF TWO CHAIRMEN IN ABIA THREATENS PARTY

    In Abia State, APGA, which did very well in the last two governorship elections, is also currently troubled. For some time now, there have been disagreement between two factions over the authentic State Executive Committee (SEC). The crisis deepened last week when the Nkem Okoro-led State Working Committee (SWC), of the party, backed by its governorship candidate in the last election, Alex Otti, reportedly reclaimed the state party’s secretariat in Umuahia.

    The dramatic action took place barely four days after the party leadership, led by Hon. Nkem Okoro, was announced in the state.

    The reclaiming exercise by the Otti-led executive commenced with a formal notification and application requesting for security protection officially addressed to CP Etim Ene Okon, the Commissioner of Police, Abia State.

    The letter dated 7th June, 2019, was signed by the new APGA chairman, Hon. Nkem Okoro. It reads in part: “We write to seek your protection against some impostors masquerading as APGA chieftains from taking over our property/secretariat paid and retained by our party through our Leader, Dr Alex Otti, OFR.

    “The said property/building, as well as office equipment as provided by Dr Alex Otti, OFR are located at No. 74 School Road, off Ikot-Ekpene Road, Umuahia”.

    Okoro, who also addressed newsmen at the party’s secretariat after taking over the facility, described the present State Working Committee (SWC) and members of APGA in the state as law-abiding and responsible citizens, adding that his leadership diligently followed due process and legitimate procedure in reclaiming the office without breaching any law and order.

    In a maiden meeting with members of the SWC and 17 LGA chairmen of the party in the state, Okoro also urged them to “remain steadfast and committed even in the face of provocation from the ‘impostors and political merchants’ who earlier attempted to hijack the party.”

    The crisis peaked earlier in the month when APGA House of Representatives aspirant for Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal Constituency in the 2018 primaries, Ejikeme Alozie-Nwagboso, announced his resignation from the party.

    In a letter addressed to his party’s Ozza Ukwa ward chairman and issued to reporters in Umuahia, the Abia State capital,

    Nwagboso said he left APGA over what he described as “lack of direction by the Victor Oye-led National Working Committee (NWC) of APGA.”

    The letter reads in part, “I, via this letter, and in exercise of my constitution and legal rights to belong to a political party of choice, hereby tender my resignation of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, with immediate effect.

    “I had earlier submitted that the State chairman, Reverend Augustine Ehiemere and the National chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Oye, should step aside, due to their lack of appropriate direction of the party.

    “It is ethical, as a result, that, I resign the membership of the party at this time. I thank you and every member of APGA for the roles you all have played while as a member”.

    OYE UNDER PRESSURE TO SAVE PARTY

    Following the kind of sentiment expressed by Nwagboso, insiders told The Nation that Oye and his team are now under pressure to wake up and save the party. “Many members are disillusioned. We have made our positions known. It is now left for the national leadership of the party to rise up to the challenges because they need not be told that APGA, a once promising party is dwindling,” said Patrick Ukoma, an APGA supporter in Item, Abia State.

  • Obiano donates N10m for NYSC members’ feeding

    Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano on Thursday announced a donation of N10 million for the supplementary feeding of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members deployed in the state for the three-week orientation course.

    The governor announced the donation while declaring open this year’s orientation camp of 2,200 Batch “B” Stream I corps members at the Umunya Orientation Camp in Oyi Local Government Area.

    The governor, who was represented by the Head of Service (HoS), Harry Udu, reassured the corps members of his administration’s continued support to the scheme to make life more comfortable for the corps members.

    He said: “I hereby direct the NYSC State Coordinator to ensure the provision of the most sumptuous meal nationwide as I shall be supplementing the feeding in the Anambra camp with N10 million.

    “We will continue to provide the enabling environment for youths to maximise their potential of self-actualisation and employment.”

    Obiano urged the corps members to take advantage of the numerous youth-friendly policies and enabling environment in the state to build prosperity for themselves and the nation.

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    The governor praised the NYSC management and workers for curtailing the excesses of corps members, particularly embarking on unnecessary journeys outside the state.

    He advised them to exercise more patience with his administration towards the completion of the permanent orientation camp, which he said will be ready in August.

    The State Coordinator, Kehinde Aremu, regretted the delay in the completion of the permanent camp.

    He attributed it to the delay in budgetary releases.

    “We were almost 100 per cent sure of readiness of the camp, but budgetary releases stalled the total completion. That’s why we were back to the living arms of the Umunya community.

    “But looking at the commitment and body language of the governor, I’m not in doubt that the camp will be ready in August,” Aremu said.