Enugu Assures Communities Of Electricity

The Enugu State
Government says it would provide electricity to the few remaining communities in the state that are yet to be electrified before the end of the administration in May 2015.
The state Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, stated this in an address at a workshop on community Administration organised for Councillors, Area Administration Town Union Presidents and other stakeholders in the state at Nike Lake Resort Hotels, Enugu.
Governor Chime who was represented on the occasion by the Chief of Staff Government House Enugu, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo, restated the administration’s commitment to providing the people with the essentials amenities that would help make life better for them.
He noted that the workshop was organised to enable government knows the position of the distribution of social amenities to communities in the state with a view to addressing any imbalance and other areas of needs.
According to him, government has done much in the provision of social amenities to the people, adding that there is still need for improvement.
He said that the state government is interested in the reconstruction of rural road to help convey food produced in the rural areas to the urban areas and emphasised that his administration would continue to pay attention to accountability and probity in government business.
Earlier in an address, the sate Commissioner for Rural Development, Dr. Eric Oluedo, said that the workshop was intended to restore good governance in the rural communities in the state.
He noted that in Enugu State, every community was mandated to have a town union, with a president that would govern by rule of Law, pointing out that there should be no more parallel town unions as witnessed in many communities in the State.
Dr. Oluedo noted that the workshop would also help to reduce crisis and conflicts in many communities arising from power tussle due to the inability of the leaders to carry all the stakeholders along in the execution of community project.
He recalled that on assumption of office the administration of Governor Chime constituted a committee known as Visit Every Community (VEC), to meet with the communities and ascertain the need of the people.
Government, he went on, based its rural development on VEC reports, adding that VEC initiative of the Governor