Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has declared Wednesday, June 23, as a public holiday in the state to mourn the state’s Commissioner for Infrastructural Development, Fidelis Nweze, who died in a road accident on June 19.
Mr Umahi made the declaration on Tuesday in Abakaliki while announcing the death of the commissioner.
The governor directed that all offices and markets be shut in the state and declared a four-day mourning period to elapse on June 26.
“All government officials in collaboration with the state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) would organise prayer and fasting sessions all through the mourning period.
“We have to pray for his family and the ring-road project which he was the chairman of its committee for the past six years,” he said.
