Delta state government is to appoint camp commandants in all the rehabilitation centres in the state to ensure that there was order and equitable distribution of relief materials to  flood victims in the camps.

The state governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan who announced this during an interactive session with journalists in the state said the commandants of the camps would have the power to introduce measures that would properly address the needs of the victims and check lawlessness.

According to the governor the appointment of commandants would streamline activities and ensure orderliness.

The governor promised that he would continue to improve facilities in the camps to ensure that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) enjoy the basic necessities of life.

He promised to as much as possible provide three square meals a day for the victims but frowned at the attitude of some Deltans who infiltrate the camps to feed whenever it was time for food to be served.

The governor gave assurance that he would not do anything to stop the unwholesome attitude of those infiltrators who were not affected by the flood but were cutting short the ration of flood victims.

Dr Uduaghan who harped on the need of the medical units in the various camps to do their job diligently especially with professional expertise, enjoined them not to allow patients to buy drugs from outside the premises.

“The medical team knows what to do if there is shortage of drugs. They should use their professional intelligence to move to the next level because they know how to get drugs. They should not at any time allow patients to go outside the camps to buy drugs with their own money,” he said.

Dr Uduaghan said the challenge his government was facing was that of post-camp plan of resettling the victims after their stay in the camp.

He said it was a serious challenge explaining that some of them may not go back to their previous homes adding that such development would pose a very big challenge especially building new homes for them.

In answer to a question, he said most of the social problems building up in the camps were as a result of frustration even as he said that he would continue to make efforts to address their needs and reduce their fears.

In answer to another question, he said skill acquisition centres have been created in the camps while football teams have also been formed to actively engage them and reduce stress.

When the going gets tough in U.S. presidential elections, New Jersey rockers get going.

Bruce Springsteen is set to make campaign appearances in Ohio and Iowa on Thursday in support of President Obama.

The appearances follow the participation of Jon Bon Jovi, a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions, in several campaign events this season, including a big fundraiser Oct. 7 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, where actor George Clooney and musicians Stevie Wonder and Katy Perry also appeared.

The Springsteen stumps in Ohio and Iowa are seen as significant in two pivotal states.

“Bruce has gravitas in this area (of the country) because of his work,” said Jerry Zolten, an associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State. “His endorsement carries a lot more weight than other movie stars or rock ‘n’ roll acts. Take a (Springsteen) tune like Youngstown, and you’re bringing in a man who recognizes the dynamics of Youngstown with a candidate whose views he endorses, and you have a real power speaking there.”

Springsteen’s Youngstown, from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad, illuminates the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Ohio city of the same name.

“Bruce Springsteen’s values echo what the president and vice president stand for: hard work, fairness, integrity,” said Jim Messina, Obama-Biden campaign manager, in a statement posted on brucespringsteen.net. “His appearances will help with our get-out-the-vote effort in these critical swing states, and we are thrilled with his ongoing support.”

Springsteen will appear Thursday at Iowa State University in Ames. That same day he also will be in Parma, Ohio, at Cuyahoga Community College. Former president Bill Clinton will also appear with Springsteen in Ohio. Obama is not expected to attend.

“My sense is that you know it’s tough to make any inroads with the unconverted at this moment in time,” Zolten said. “But there are enough of the electorate who are for Obama who may not be motivated enough to get out and vote — that’s where the strength of a Springsteen endorsement comes in. I don’t think (Springsteen will) change the mind of anyone not voting for Obama.”

Springsteen performed at several high-profile events for the Obama campaign in 2008, including a rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia that drew 50,000 attendees. Springsteen led the 2004 Vote for Change tour in support of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

There were signs that Springsteen would stay on the sidelines this year.

“I’m not a professional campaigner, and every four years I don’t think that I’m going to go and pick a guy and go after him,” said Springsteen at a news conference in Paris in February.

In September, the Obama campaign picked Springsteen’s We Take Care of Our Own to close out the Democratic National Convention.

Bon Jovi has been active in lower-profile events in support of the Obama campaign.

In addition to the Los Angeles event, he has appeared in Iowa (twice), Las Vegas and Colorado.

Springsteen and Bon Jovi are among a group of celebrities, including Morgan Freeman, Rosie Perez, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Jay-Z, who have publicly expressed their support for Obama.

Clint Eastwood, who used an empty chair as a prop to represent Obama at the GOP convention, Jon Voight and Stacey Dash have publicly supported Mitt Romney.

“We live in a time where celebrities are coming forward to make their views known,” Zolten said. “The candidates could face a tremendous backlash. Just because you’re a celebrity doesn’t mean people want to hear your opinion.”

An Aba based medical doctor, Lawrence Anyanwu of Lawato Hospital, World Bank Housing Estate, Abayi in Osisioma Ngwa Local council of Abia state and two others have been nabbed by the police for child trafficking.

247ureports.com gathered that Anyanwu was arrested alongside his partners in crime, Mr. Ernest Nzekwe and Mrs Ogechi Akalike for abducting one Miss Peace Pius and selling her baby delivered in the hospital.

The suspects were arrested on a tip off on October 8, 2012 by the anti-robbery operatives of the Aba Area Command led by ASP Anari Anari and have been transferred to the Zone 9 Police Headquarters, Umuahia.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Abia state Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke who confirmed the arrest of the suspects told newsmen in Aba on Wednesday, said that Peace, a pregnant woman of 63 Rivers Road, Warri, Delta was abducted in Aba and kept in the custody of Nzekwe who conspired with Ogechi and later took her to Anyanwu’s hospital.

He said that Peace, after a caesarian operation in the hospital never saw her baby whether alive or dead after the delivery.

247ureports.com further gathered that the suspects had taken the police to the woman who bought the baby, but she is on the run, as efforts were being intensified to arrest the fleeing culprits.

Narrating her ordeal, Peace told newsmen that she was unconscious when she got to Aba, but later found herself in a house which she hardly know the owner.

She said that she was taken to a hospital by the Samaritan who owned the house, where she was operated upon to deliver the baby.

Peace lamented that she asked for her baby from the doctor when she regained consciousness, but was told that the baby is dead, which she did not believed.

She further claimed that from inquiries she made from the nurses at the hospital, she was told of being safely delivered of a baby boy.

In continuation of the on-going sanitization of the state education sector, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday announced the removal of 41 Zonal Inspectors and Chief Inspectors of Education and Local Government Education officers over non-performance and negligence of duty.

The decision, according to him, is the outcome of a continuing performance audit. Also, the Governor announced the demotion of the Vice Principal of New Era College, Mr S.E Akhabue, from Grade Level 15 to Grade Level 14 for being a perpetual late-comer.

While meeting the affected school inspectors and officers at the Government House, the Governor disclosed that the administrative details of the change in the school inspectorate will be made known in the coming days.

It will be recalled that the governor had paid series of unscheduled visits to public schools across the state in the last two weeks where he made mind-boggling discoveries bordering on absenteeism or dereliction of duty by teachers.

Addressing the inspectors yesterday, Comrade Oshiomhole said: “It’s obvious from what I’ve seen today and from what you’ve told me that you’ve all breached your basic duties, which is to monitor schools and file basic reports, which among things, should include reports on those present and absent so that government can take steps to assist those who want to work to remain and those who don’t want to work to go home.

“Edo state government has lost millions of naira of taxpayers’ money because of your failure to do your duties.

“You are guilty of negligence of duty and even abandonment of your duties. I believe that most times, you don’t even come to work. We do not need this set of Zonal Inspectors of Education, Chief Inspectors of Education and Local Government Education Inspectors.

“The days are gone when people don’t do their jobs. It’s shocking that you recognize that you are supposed to have written reports, yet you fail to do so.

“I am happy that parents and guardians are returning their children and wards to public schools as a result of the massive investment we have made in the education sector, yet, you who are to ensure that teachers work do not do so.

“I’m not hiding the fact that only those who are willing to work will keep their jobs. Everybody must be accountable. I am accountable to the Edo people, the House of Assembly is accountable, so if we are accountable, who are you not to be accountable.

“If the teachers don’t teach, we have no future and your brief is to ensure that the teachers work and yet you failed to do that.

“It’s a new Edo, everybody must be put on notice to work and justify their pay. I have a duty to remind you that when you have abandoned your job, you have also lost it.”

The Vice Principal of New Era College, Mr. Akhabue, who was demoted by a Grade Level during an unscheduled visit to the school by the Governor, was found guilty of perpetually getting to the office late. The time-book of the teachers which the Governor went through showed that the Vice Principal sometimes got to the office as late as 9:55am.

Also, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has approved the removal of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Mrs Caro Edo-Osagie from office with immediate effect for dereliction of duty.

In a statement by the Commissioner for Informatuion, Mr Louis Odion, the former Permanent Secretary was directed to hand over all government’s property in her care to her immediate subordinate within 24 hours