By PETER OKUTU
ABAKALIKI— GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State yesterday, warned that communities involved in communal wars would no longer enjoy infrastructural development as the state government was determined to implement its policy on “No peace, No Amenity” in the affected communities.

Elechi who spoke on the Democracy Day, noted that his administration would terminate on-going projects in any warring zone in the state.

According to him, the decision was necessary in view of the widespread communal clashes which had bedeviled the state over the last one year, stressing that some of the crises were older than his administration, but that they were aggravated on account of political bitterness.

He said: “I want to make it clear that this administration will not waste its time in trying to provide social amenities in any community unless peace is guaranteed. Our policy of no peace, no amenity shall apply strictly; and even where projects are already on-going, we shall not hesitate to terminate same, if public peace is threatened.”

The governor said he would engage 50 youths in the weeks ahead to deflate tyres of illegally parked vehicles on the streets of the state capital.

According to the governor, the employment of the youths was to ensure strict adherence to the environmental cleanliness by all and sundry in the state.

He also assured of his administration’s readiness to commence development of the main campus of state-owned university, at Ezzamgbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, saying “government shall be ruthless with those who have erected illegal structures or have embarked on indiscriminate tilling of the university land.”