Make citizens welfare your priority, Onwuadiamu tells Delta Govt, PDP

A stalwart of the Delta State All Progressives Congress(APC), Hon Chiedu Paul Onwuadiamu has

admonished the Dr Ifeanyi Okowa led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government in Delta State

to make the welfare of Deltans and the provision of necessary infrastructure as critical priorities in

impacting the life of the masses, instead of chasing imaginary enemies.

He offered the piece of advice in a press release made available to journalist in Asaba while

responding to a statement credited to Ifeanyi Osuoza the publicity secretary of the Delta State

Peoples Democratic Party, in which he cast aspersions on a foremost APC chieftain, Chief(Engr )

Hycainth Enuha, who had earlier on counseled the state governor on the impropriety of denying

workers their salaries for eight months as well as the dearth of infrastructure necessary for

conducive existence.

 Onwuadiamu said: "I wish to reiterate the call made by our leader Chief Hyacinth

Enuha that the bulk of civil servants salaries remain unpaid in Delta State. We need not remind him that local government employees have been without salary for the past eight months."

He observed that if the asphalting of Usonia Street and Cable road in Asaba amount to massive infrastructural development to Mr. Osuoza and his PDP government in 16 months, then Deltans must brace up for hard times in the coming years before 2019.

Hon Onwuadiamu submitted that it smacks of irresponsibility for a state so richly blessed with

human and material resources to wallow in poverty, poor infrastructural development, hunger and

quagmire, adding that Mr. Osuoza and the Okowa administration are obviously oblivious of the

massive infrastructure deficit plaguing Delta State , as has been made very manifest by the rains

which have made Okpanam road and other roads in Asaba unpassable as well as the decay in

Warri, Sapele and Ughelli.

The APC chieftain therefore advised the PDP government in Delta State to visit our less endowed

neighbours of ANAMBRA, EDO AND RIVERS STATE and see what they have been able to do in

terms of infrastructure, even with very limited resources.

He pointed out that it is an open secret that Anambra and Edo States have done better than Delta

State in the payment of civil servants’ salaries, in infrastructural development and indeed posses

better development indices than its rich neighbor Delta State which boasts a monthly statutory

federal allocation of N6 billion and, of course, a grossly under quoted N3 billion from

internally generated revenue, a situation attributable to the monumental corruption visited on the

state treasury by past and present PDP governments in the state, as exemplified by Governor

Okowa who is currently vacationing in Europe and America celebrating his 57th birthday with an

entourage of at least 30 persons while Civil Servants salary remain unpaid.