President of Alor- Agu Progressive Union (AAPU), Chief Damian Omeje, and the member representing Alor-Agu in Igbo Eze South Local Government Transition Committee, Hon. Emmanuel Ik-Jonathan, in a statement on behalf of the people of the area, described the coming projects as a mark of good governance on the part of the governor considering that they are being executed in a remote area such as theirs.
According to the statement, the community promised to provide enabling environment for successful completion of the projects by getting its members to play their own civic roles effectively as the projects come underway.
“We are overjoyed by the avalanche of love shown to our community by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Enugu State, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for simultaneously awarding the construction of a Cottage Hospital and Water reticulation project through the MDGs.
“Since the news flew in about the award of these projects, the community has been thrown into a theatre of celebration considering the burden taken off the shoulder of an average son and daughter of Alor- Agu by the governor’s gesture.
“This is because the community has existed without a hospital and every indigene of the community treks a long distance to fetch drinking water from the location of the existing community borehole dug over forty years ago.” The statement reads in part”, they said in the statement of thank you to Governor Ugwuanyi.
They prayed God to grant the governor protection and wisdom throughout his tenure and maintained that they would continue to support his administration to succeed in all ramifications, adding that “One good turn deserves another”.
Speaking at a brief flag off ceremony to commence the construction of the Cottage Hospital and the Water Reticulation projects, the contractor handling the Cottage Hospital, Chief Chijioke Okorie, said that the hospital would be ready for use in sixty days time.
Okorie who is the Chief Executive Officer of M-Kotech Nig Limited, equally commended the governor and the MDGs office in the state for finding his company worthy to carry out the building project and promised to deliver the project as directed by the state government.
Speaking also, the manager of the construction company handling the water reticulation project, Mr. Ezeaku Alphonsus, said that though the initial contract was to construct a solar powered mini borehole, he however promised that the company would heed to the request of the community to reticulate water across different junctions of the community from the existing borehole to ease the stress of the residents. End
