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Rivers PDP Candidate Vows To Replicate Wike’s Dev Strides At Grassroots
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State in the April 17 council election, Erastus Awortu, has made a commitment to replicate Governor Nyesom Wike’s development strides at the grassroots.
Awortu gave the assurance while rallying support from three wards of Ngo, Uyangala and Agwut-Obolo communities in Andoni.
He lamented high level infrastructure decay, absence of functional healthcare facilities, and pledged to speedily address them when elected.
“We can attest to our governor’s plethora of achievements in the state. Residents and those doing business in Rivers State, today, are in one way or the other benefiting from good governance driven by Wike. My administration will replicate same across the 11 wards,” Awortu stated.
“I will ensure that our people benefit from grassroots administration and also give opportunities for the youths to play dominant roles.”
The PDP candidate affirmed determination to fulfill his campaign promises, saying they formed his reason for contesting in the election.
“My administration will deliver good governance to communities across Andoni. There are, indeed, so many areas that are yearning for attention in Andoni, and I am determined to prudently manage monthly allocations of the council with a view to addressing these challenges,” he declared.
“We will also strive towards increasing our Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to enable us fund key projects in the healthcare, education and other sectors.”
Awortu expressed worries about the spate of insecurity in the area, saying that the menace has rendered the healthcare, judicial and other sectors completely moribund.
“Presently, in Andoni, there are no functional hospitals, health workers posted here have all left their stations because of insecurity. We will strive to restore peace to enable workers return to their stations.
“Andoni must have peace; that’s why, I appeal to all aggrieved youths to crave for peace among themselves, elders and the communities to enable us reposition the area for growth just like other local government areas in the state.”
The PDP candidate also assured on his readiness to tackle employment racketeering among operating oil companies, so as to generate employment for youths in the area.
“I understand there are some oil companies operating on our territorial waters at Eboon-Okwaan area. Some of these companies had yet to admit the fact that their operational area falls within Andoni,” he noted.
“There are also rumours about employment racketeering, a horrible situation where some indigenes of the area deliberately connive with these operating companies to sell off employment opportunities assigned for the youths thereby, increasing poverty and unemployment in the area.
“When elected, we will investigate these allegations, complaints and rumours and also work towards addressing them.”
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Rivers state Deputy Governor Professor Ngozi Nma Odu has commended “The Port Harcourt City One Love,”a Port Harcourt based humanitarian orgnisation For it’s commitment towards alleviating the sufferings of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Professor Ngozi Nma Odu said this while speaking at this year’s edition of “operation feed the needy” a yearly outreach program of “The Port Harcourt City One Love ” in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor said by feeding more than sixty thousands hungry people within the past six years, the Port Harcourt City One Love Movement has distinguished itself as a club that cares for the less privilege in the society.
She commended the , organization for listing eleven thousand persons to be fed in the current exercise.
Meanwhile The Port Harcourt City One Love has planned a permanent solution to the problem of feeding the poor in the state.
The leader of the group Mr Idaere Gogo Ogan who said this in an interview with newsmen during the distribution of food items to the poor and vulnerables in Port Harcourt said the organization is planning a permanent food kitchen where poor and vulnerable persons can work in anytime and get fed.
Idaere Gogo Ogan said more than sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons across Port Harcourt City and environs have been fed since the inception of “The operation feed the needy” program six years ago,adding that so far sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons have beneffited.
He described the group as a platform to promote friendship, brotherhood, community development empathy and feeding the less privilege and hungry people
“That’s what we are doing today here,so we started the exercise six years ago”.he said.
Ogan said the effort was a private sector driven initiative but added “it also involves people in Government because the platform does not recognize any division,we bring everybody together in unity , friendship and brotherhood”he said.
He said the effort will go along way in alleviating hunger especially following the prevailing hunger in the country.
According to him “you know the country is very tough, people are hungry people are starving, there is a whole lot of economic hardship,so for us, this is just our own way of reaching out, our own social contribution to what is very difficult”he said.
Over eleven thousand persons were fed in the just concluded exercise.
Areas of coverage include, Isaac Boro park, Port Harcourt prison/Macoba, Borokiri/Enugu waterside Bundu areas Waterlines and others.
Some of the beneficiaries including an 80 years old widow commended the movement for the annual programm and urged other organizations to emulate them
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