Enugu Assembly Assures Pipe Borne Water

The Enugu State House of Assembly has assured the residents of the state capital that water would flow from their taps in the first quarter of 2012.

Mr Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, the Chairman of the assembly committee on water resources, told newsmen in Enugu that the water would flow in areas where old pipes were changed as well as in nearby rural areas.

He appealed to donor agencies to assist the state’s water corporation to revamp its installations as the firm handling the job performed beyond expectation.

Ezeugwu decried the volume of water being wasted at Oji River Water Scheme even when residents of the coal city had no water to drink.

He wondered why the water corporation was unable to repair the 2,500kva transformer that pumped water from the scheme in spite of attempts to fix it.

He called for the overhaul of the installations and advised the water corporation to revitalise the scheme rather than lay pipes without water.

In another development, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Enugu State, Mr Ebere Amarizu, has paraded one Chinedu Nnaya, the alleged founder of a fake deliverance ministry.

Nnaya was alleged to have established the “True Vine Ministry” which he used to extort money from people in order to conduct family deliverance for them.

Amarizu said that luck, however, ran against the fake pastor when his last victim Mr Prince Divine, a contractor with in Nsukka, alerted the police after N60,000 was allegedly extorted from him

He said, “The fake pastor used tortoise, chains, padlock and a bag of salt to deceive people into beliving that he was conducting deliverance.

“The last victim alerted the police, our men were put on surveillance, when the last victim on arrangement with the police invited him to another family for deliverance. It was there he was arrested on Wednesday.”

Amarizu said, “It was in the process of the deliverance that we discovered that the tortoise and padlock, he claimed were buried in the compound by enemies, were actually planted by him.

“They were planted when he sent all of us out from the room at a point during his fake prayers.

“He was paid N60,000 for the job and his flight ticket, as claimed to have come from Abuja.

“It was later discovered that he is living in Nsukka. He even told us he is working with the Adoration Ministry, Enugu. But we also discovered that he is a liar.”