Between our harrowing daily woes presided by unforgivable sadists making life insufferable for Nigerians, along the line some strategic governance takes place unnoticed probably because we have been overwhelmed with unsavory news troted out overstretching our growing insensateness . The polity is booming with hot-air, tension swelling like unleavened bread and a yeasty insecurity threat . Hardly do we digest one scary news while another of more soul-destroying magnificent queue simultaneously .
The spate of consuming infernos motivated by the brazen negligence of oil tanker drivers who in most cases were found half drifting away, some dead drunk before hopping behind the steering, pushed many people into believing that there was a brewing conspiracy theory to tactically decimate Igbo businesses and properties given the reckless abandon in steering combustible tankers to densely populated marketing provinces with full knowledge of its inflammable content. No report of massive destruction of human lives, properties lost to these avoidable mishaps can ever be proper documented, at best it can only be imagined.
Although fire incidents is not uncommon in human history and like death, it comes when it will especially during the gale of harmattan fanning into life every smoldering embers going feral if unattended promptly. However, certain percentage of their sparks draws credits from collective and individual negligence on duty. The previous year of covid-19 pandemic was hellish of sorts, where schools were abruptly slammed into a protracted detention in check against the hydra-headed virus, a few schools resumed to gory sights of fast crumbling dark painted walls and erstwhile impeccable files turned brown with unfortunate roof sheets dangling inwardly. It was the most traumatized view of unity schools who took the lead of victims of such conflagration ignited by village urchins routing bushes for games and spiriting away into the thin air as the furnace rages tumultuously.
It’s heartwarming to hear Enugu State government under the doting grip of His Excellency Rt. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to invest much in the fire services unlike before. Ugwuanyi a witness himself to many fire attacks both in the Enugu Urban City and rural areas has stood vanguard to avert recurrence of human and resources waste of no mean proportion. The visionary governor did not halt at re-equiping Enugu State fire services but also rejiggered the management to exude responsiveness and professionalism.
Indeed, taking the reins of leadership quite differs from shouldering all incidentals of leadership which Ugwuanyi examplifies on daily basis. In order to forestall dramatic fire upsurge in schools, Ugwuanyi sanctioned the fire services authorities itinerancy business of touring schools educating pupils on safeguards against internal and external combustion and how to bravely fight off unsuspecting explosion by judicious utilizing of installed fire extinguishers in all the 294 secondary schools across the state.
A community effect of the rescue tutorials would definitely imprint on pupils memory like scars, even spur few who dream to enlist into humanitarian jobs.
Government of Ugwuanyi conceives that there are more to making academic a practicality and first hand teaching of students rescue mission is a commendable trajectory in the right plane for it brings technological knowledge to bear on pupils formative years , an opportunity earlier generations were time denied. In western nations, unceasingly harassed by unfriendly gale of summer, which at odd times stave into unimaginable fire outbreaks staggering the economy and ravaging ageless castles leaving the ruin for other natural hazards to swallow, students are being groomed in the act of fighting fires which they act and re-enact at homes to fastrack their learning. Their consistency have in no little way staved off inferno triggers at home and in schools with a chunk number of them veering into fire services of their respective states after schooling owing to emotional rectitude and self-assurance and self fulfillment such jobs reinforces in them.
Governor Ugwuanyi is not only winning the war against fire outburst as aptly captured by the Enugu State Fire Service chief, Engr. Okwudiri Ohaa but also laying solid foundation for modernized schooling arrangements which features as requirements for accreditation for learning and writing of external examinations.
Enugu State is in the Hands of God
Written by
Hon. Mrs. Bibian Anekwe
SSA on Mobilization and Empowerment to Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
Enugu di n’akachukwu movement ( DG)
