GPHCDA To Provide Land For Special School

The Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority (GPHCDA), has promised that it will make land available for the building of the special school for the handicapped within the area of its authority.

Sole Administrator of GPHCDA, Dame Aleruchi Cookey-Gam who gave the assurance while reacting to questions from the state Governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Amaechi on why the land donation was still being delayed, said the land would be made available within the next six weeks.

Mrs Cookey-Gam explained that the cause of the delay was as a result of the processing of the papers and documents that are involved in the land, pointing out that those involved in the processing of the document were not able to finish the processes before now.

She, however, averred that GPHCDA will do its best to ensure that the six week deadline given for the land to be made available will not be toiled with, which invariably means that the land will be ready by the second week of April 2013. To this end, Governor Amaechi has urged the people of the state to hold the Sole Administration responsible if such promise is not fulfilled within the time frame given, and frowned at non-implementation of promises made by same government authorities, which makes things seem as if government does not keep to its promises.

Amaechi had in January promised to build 1,000 housing units for low-income earners in the state at the Greater Port Harcourt City, and that a German firm will partner with the government to make the cost lower.

Already, expectations are high as to the actualization of the promise, as well as make it available to the targeted low income earners, as expected without letting it be hijacked or taken over by the higher level income earners            and      pol itic ia ns.

Corlins Walter