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A 23-man team from
the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, has
commenced a one-week study tour of environmental challenges in Anambra
State, Jacob Adeyemi, the leader of the team, a brigadier general, has
said.

Mr. Adeyemi said
this yesterday in Awka, the state capital, when the group paid a
courtesy call on Governor Peter Obi at the Government House. He said
the tour would take them to some disaster areas in the state including
some gully erosion sites, in line with their study.

He stated that the
study report will be presented to the Federal Government on February 21
as a policy paper in assisting the government to take decisions on
ecological problems in the country.

The team leader
thanked Mr. Obi for his support to the military command in the state and
his efforts that helped in completing the Onitsha military barracks
fence.

“From my close
interaction with Governor Obi, I have no doubt about his passion for
the well being of the state,” Mr. Adeyemi said.

Governor Obi
solicited support for the state government’s efforts to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ahead of time with contribution of
ideas.

He said the state
had emerged from its difficult past stronger and more purposeful and was
now carefully executing multi-sectoral development strategy to turn the
state around, in line with the Millennium Development Goals which the
state adopted as its vision.