The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Anambra State Council, has commended the State government for providing resettlement centers and relief materials for flood affected communities in the State.
In a communique issued at the end of its Monthly Congress which took place at the Press Centre, Awka, the union also urged the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to intensify efforts to ensure that all those living in flood prone areas in the State, including Ossamalla and Omamballa areas are protected from the increased flood menace.
Congress commended the State government for upgrading the School of Agriculture, Mgbakwu, to a Polytechnic, which it noted would help address the education needs of the youths, but urged the Government to address
the infrastructural and manpower to give it the status befitting a polytechnic.
The Congress which deliberated on a number of issues affecting the Union and the State, also called on the State government to, as a matter of urgency, rehabilitate all dilapidated intra and intercity roads in parts of the State, with high quality materials, to guarantee their durability and save the people from avoidable danger.
Congress further regretted the reported influx of stranger elements in parts of the State and urged security agents to ensure that undesirable elements were not allowed to have a field day in the State.
Congress commended the National Inland Waterways Authority for the ongoing efforts to upgrade Onitsha Sea Port and make it a port of destination, urging the Agency to expedite action on the exercise, which the Congress noted would help boost business activities in the South East and reduce accidents caused by articulated vehicles that presently transport containers to the zone.
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