The
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, at the weekend stressed
the need for the various ethnic groups in the country to forge a common
front towards making Nigeria a great a prosperous nation.
Besides, Uduaghan disclosed
that the state government would soon tackle the traffic and sanitation
problems in some part of the state.
Governor
Uduaghan, who spoke at the funeral service of late Pa Nawe Eric
Akporiaye in Warri, promised to see his agenda to transform Warri city
through before leaving office.
Dr. Uduaghan observed that the
late Akporiaye, who was father of the Chief Medical Director of the
Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, Dr. Leslie Akporiaye,
represented a generation of Warri indigenes that stood for unity and
harmony among the ethnic groups that dwell in the city.
Lamenting the ethic distrust
that now prevails in the city, Uduaghan noted that Warri became famous
not necessarily because of industrialization but for people like
Akporiaye who were worthy ambassadors of the city.
He urged the various ethnic
groups in the state and Warri in particular to borrow a leaf from their
progenitors and learn to live in unity and join hands with his
administration's determination to restore the lost glory of the city.
The governor promised that his
administration was committed towards transforming Warri into a modern
city that would be the envy of others in the country.
Dr.
Uduaghan explained that the State Government was executing an agenda
ranging from traffic control, junction improvement, road rehabilitation
and expansion, general improvement in transport infrastructure and waste
management as part of measures towards transforming the urban areas and
cities in the state.
Governor Uduaghan decried poor
sanitary habits, indiscriminate trading and parking on walk ways and on
streets, warning that the State Government would soon come out sternly
against such practices.
In
a sermon, the officiating minister, Reverend Justin Okoroji (Junior),
charged the living to take the biblical water of life and live right to
enjoy divine favour.
Okoroji emphasized that man would certainly account for his days before God hence the need to be sure we finish well on earth.
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