Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has vowed to see his agenda to transform Warri city through before leaving office.

He made the vow at the weekend while speaking at the funeral service of late Pa Nawe Eric Akporiaye in Warri.

The governor assured that his administration remains committed towards transforming Warri into a modern city that would be the envy of others in the country.

Dr. Uduaghan explained that the State Government is executing an agenda, ranging from traffic control to junction improvement, road rehabilitation and expansion, general improvement in transport infrastructure, and waste management as part of measures towards transforming the urban areas and cities in the state.

Governor Uduaghan decried poor sanitary habits, indiscriminate trading and parking on walk ways and on streets, warning that the State Government would soon come out sternly against such practices.

He observed that the late Akporiaye, who was father of the Chief Medical Director of the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, Dr. Leslie Akporiaye, represented a generation of Warri indigenes that stood for unity and harmony among the ethnic groups that dwell in the city.

Lamenting the ethic distrust that now prevails in the city, Uduaghan noted that Warri became famous not necessarily because of industrialisation but for people like Akporiaye who were worthy ambassadors of the city.

He urged the various ethnic groups in the state and Warri in particular to borrow a leaf from their progenitors and learn to live in unity and join hands with his administration in its determination to restore the lost glory of the city.

In a sermon, the officiating minister, Reverend Justin Okoroji (Junior), charged the living to take the biblical water of life and live right to enjoy divine favour.

He emphasised that man would certainly account for his days before God hence the need to be sure to finish well on earth.

•Photo shows aerial view of Warri.

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