The Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru has stated that plans are in place to build bus stop, board shelters and bus terminal within the capital city of the State to guide people of state on traffic rules.
This was made known by the Commissioner for Capital City Chief Sunday Inyima, at the weekend while speaking with Journalists in his Office on the State government’s plans to beautify the capital city.
He disclosed that the decision to build the structures is to guide the citizens on the traffic rules within the capital city.
The Commissioner further said that the State government is also focusing on beautification of all the dual carriageways within the capital city.
While admonishing residents of the State to always present an integrity test from a certified Korean member who will take responsibility for their building if collapses, he noted that the integrity test is the only measure to avoid building collapse and loss of lives in the State.
He said, ” From the time we were in Ogojo province to Anambra, Imo to Enugu, Abia and we have Ebonyi. The past govt has tried its best, especially the previous administration. We believe that we are going to impress the people. The roads have been done, electricity is working we are focusing on beautification.
“The Governor has directed that I and the commissioner for environment, Hon. Victor Chukwu, should take on the landscaping and beautification of all the dual carriageways within the capital city especially the urban city. He has also directed that we should bring up a bill for the construction of bus stops, board shelters, and bus terminals to encourage people to know that there are rules in traffic within the urban city,” he said.
“One thing am going to promise you is that there won’t be any issue of building collapse. For every building more than one store, you have to present an integrity test from a certified Korean member and that person will take responsibility for what happens in that building.
“One problem people have is that when they come to the ministry of development, the town planning department, they do anything to get approval for a bungalow but go to site to build a 3-storey building. That is how you see building collapse coming up but if you have the integrity test and an engineer who brought out himself to work, if anything happens, the person will be held responsible.
“We are not playing about this, no building will collapse in Ebonyi,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner has called on artisans in the street of the State capital city to return to their designated permanent Sites as his ministry has constituted taskforce that will enforce the order.
“Our core mandate in this ministry is to oversee the supervision and the monitoring of the physical developmental control. We have invited so many stakeholders from different fields, the building material, the cement dealers, welders, furniture makers, all in a bid to create awareness. We have asked them to go back to their main site. They came back to the street towards the tail end of the last administration when they thought that the new government might not be interested in policies of the old Government people.
“We have set up tax forces to start taking them back to where they are supposed to be. Owners of big warehouses in the State have been also asked to go back to their sites.
“The artisan welder and the shop that was located to their members at the integrated building material site is just about seventy-five. But we have a survey plan here where they were actually allocated to stay at the industrial cluster of Ebonyi North which is opposite the permanent site of the University.
“In that site, they have over two thousand spaces that can accommodate all of them. A. Proposal will be made to the Governor to get approval if all the welders in the town can be moved to that place and the furniture makers too want to be relocated so we are doing to be working with the ministry of lands in order to get spaces so that these people can be resettled for sanity to remain in town.”
