Anambra Explains Relocation Of ABS

The Anambra Government has said the state broadcasting service (ABS) is being relocated from its present site in Onitsha to Awada community to allow for purposeful development.

State Commissioner for Information, Chief Joe-Martins Uzodike,made the clarification in an interview with newsmen in Onitsha yesterday.

Uzodike said that his ministry and management of the state-owned media had been properly informed of the government’s action.

The Commissioner said that the state government temporarily located the media outfit at its transmitting site at Awada near Onitsha, adding that some of the staff would be relocated to an office close to the library in Onitsha.

Uzodike said that the state government would soon commence the building of a permanent office complex for the broadcasting station in its Awada transmitting premises.

He said that the existing structure would be demolished to pave way for the construction of a shopping mall.

“I am in broadcasting; where the action is, it is the studio.

“What the ABS do is to transmit both at the wave length of the radio and the television.

“And where both of them are situated is in Awada and the compound in Awada is about five football fields.

“And today, government had decided to build a five-star hotel in part of the land where the Water Works used to be and now also to build a shopping mall.

“You were there the day the government commissioned the shopping mall and said it would be built in the future.

“Now, we have been given notice that it is now about to take place and we have packed our things out into another office built by government.

‘’And from there, we are going to a permanent site of ABS, which is at Awada.