Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay, Director-General of Warri/Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency (WUEDA).
Ovedhe Hezekiah-Warri
The Director-General of Warri/Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency (WUEDA), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has vowed to demolish all illegal and unauthorized structures obstructing free flow of water on all natural waterways in Warri and environs.
Macaulay stated this on Monday August 10, 2020, while briefing journalists in his office at Warri to mark the first year anniversary of the inauguration of the Governing Board of the Agency, revealing that government is not willing to inherit any illegal structures.
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He assured that the Agency would not embark on jungle justice in the discharge of its mandate even as it commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for approving the Agency’s critical projects aimed at ameliorating the plight of the citizens and help mitigate obvious environmental challenges in its mandate areas.
In his words: “most of the projects already awarded are at various stages of completion while others are waiting for the raining season to subside to mobilize for works”.
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According to him, some of these job/projects has made tremendous impact on the environment and residents with the menace of flooding and dirt gradually disappearing from the areas adding that “the Flood Control Measures Phases 1 & 2 in Warri/Effurun, Clearing and Vegetation Control of some major roads through direct labour and the Trapezoidal Drains in the median along the NPA Expressway axis has effectively announced and register the presence of the Agency in the area showing Governor Ifeanyi as marching his words with actions” to the delight of the people.
Macaulay said, to sustain the tempo of development the Agency would set up a task force to check and sustain the works that has been done and sensitise the people on the need to keep the environment clean.
