Anambra monarch set to connect community with steady water supply



As part of his social responsibility, the traditional ruler of Omor, Ayamelum local government area of Anambra state, Igwe Oranu Christopher Chidume has empowered over 20 indigent citizens of the community with cash gifts, food and agricultural produce.

The beneficiaries which include title holders and non-title holders, the helpless, village representatives, among others, respectively received cash gifts ranging from N10, 000, rams, tubers of yams, kolanut and others.

Presenting the gifts at his 1st Ofala festival, Igwe Oranu said it was a social responsibility he adopted from the West in order to pay homage to the elders, adding that arrangements were on ground to establish a steady water supply system which would be supplying water to all villages in the community.

Igwe Oranu further informed his subjects of his plans to build ultra-modern schools, road networks, security and to revamp their agriculture sector, and others, with a promise to build a legacy that would be sustained by his successors.

Expressing happiness over the king gesture, Dr Emenike Anyegbunem, an indigene of the community, described the Igwe’s social responsibility programme to the elderly people as unique and worthy of emulation. 

“As you can now see, Igwe is apportioning all the things that people used to pay homage to him back to the elderly men, which he termed (ikpo-igwe iru) coming to see the king proper. It is being categorized into two, (ndi ichie-ukwu), Nze title holders group and ndi  ichie-akakwu (the elderly ozo title holders).

“We are happy. We will give him maximum support in whatever program/ project he may embark on.  More interestingly, as he said that in (10) years time, Omor community will become an enviable city.  Therefore, my earnest prayer concerning him is that God will give him long life, peaceful co-existence with the members of his cabinet and wisdom to lead this over populous community,” he maintained.

On his part, the President General of Omor community, Chief Michael Nebife, said that since the monarch came into power, there security challenges has been resolved as well. 

“Evidently, he has deployed additional 32 security operatives at his expense to compliment the 20 being paid by the Government of Anambra State to secure our environment. It was in his wise decision that we phase first of N20m choose project initiative from the State Government to build laboratory and examination hall at the community secondary school Omor. The second phase is for building Omor Town Hall,” said the Omor President General.

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