Ufuma (Anambra) – The people of Ufuma in Orumba North Local Government Area have appealed to the Anambra government to construct a road to fast-track the development of the area.
Speaking shortly after his election on Monday, the President-General of the Ufuma Development Union, Chief Basil Onwunze, said such a road would facilitate the evacuation of agricultural produce.
He said that a network of good roads in the community would help them move their agricultural produce to the markets in the area.
Onwunze said that the community was ready to key into the Gov. Willie Obiano’s four-point agenda of mechanised agriculture, industrialisation, oil and gas, and others to boost the revenue profile of the state.
“Our people are proud farmers. We are ready to key into the mechanised farming and other enablers but we don’t have roads to transport our produce to the wider world.
“About three of our villages have been totally cut-off from their neighbours while the other remaining villages pass through hell to move around.
“Social infrastructure engenders meaningful development. It creates the enabling environment for both the small and medium scale industries to thrive.
“I am pleading with the government to do more on rural development because it will encourage people to site industries and engage the unemployed, create wealth and reduce rural-urban migration,” Onwunze said.
In his remarks, the outgoing President-General of the community, Chief Joseph Muodebe, urged the state government to come to their rescue as their health centre had neither qualified medical officers nor drugs.
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He appealed to the government to rehabilitate their primary and secondary schools as their structures were in a shambles.
“Even qualified teachers are lacking in the schools,’’ he said and urged the new union executive to work in peace and unity for the good of the town. (NAN)