Co-operative Union Calls For Review Of RIMA

A call has gone to the Rivers State Government to review operations of the Rivers State Micro fincance Agency (RIMA) to reflect the needs and aspirations of Rivers people.

Secretary of Rivers State Transport and Investment co-operative  Union Ltd, Mr. Nemi Tamuno made the call Friday in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.

Mr. Tamuno noted that at inception of the agency, the people of the state had anticipated that it would go along way in empowering small scale business and common Rivers people and that the state government equally announced that about N3 billion was already earmarked to the agency but regretted that today it had not shown any serious commitment in empowering the people.

“I am not a critic  of the government, but as long as I am  concerned this agency only functions in name and not in actual practice. I suggest that the agency should either be scrapped or  its activities be reviewed  to meet the aspirations and needs of the people,” she said.

He expressed dismay that the common people who hoped to be assisted by this laudable initiative of Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s administration rather spent their hard earned fund to make recommended deposit in some micro finance banks, hoping to be empowered by the agency but not much can be said to have been done to alleviate the suffering of the people.

The scribe of the transport union also gave a knock on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for not achieving much desired result for the people of Niger Delta region.

He said instead of showing tangible  development inspite huge sums being dolled to the commission by the Federal Government, all that was being heard was high scale fraud always from high authorities of the commission.

Mr Tamuno commended the idea of sacking the board and challenged the new leadership to show evidence of seriousness in empowering people of the region and ultimate development of the area.

Chris Oluoh