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RIVCARES:Fubara Gets Kudos For Timely Release Of Funds
The Labour Intensive Public Works (LIPW) Unit of the Rivers State Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Scheme (RIVCARES) has commended Governor Siminalayi Fubara for releasing funds for the take off of the third phase of the programme .
Head of the Unit, Engr Prince Enyindah said this in an interview with The Tide at Saakpenwa, headquarters of Tai Local Government Area during the third phase beneficiaries training for the Rivers South East Senatorial Zone.
It would be recalled that a total of 14,500 Rivers people including youths, women and men are benefitting across the State for the third phase.
Speaking with The Tide shortly after the training, Enyindah said Governor Fubara was proactive in the release of money as far as the programme was concerned.
“The Governor has done so well.It is his proactiveness that we are here today”
He said the Governor does not waste time in ordering the release of monies meant for RIVCARES programme once it is paid into the State’s Consolidated Account. “Immediately the money got into the State Account, the Governor did not hesitate,he just minuted it out that he should be distributed to the various departments for implementation, because this programme is performance for results.
“When we perform. We get result. It is based on that result that World Bank releases further money. “That is why we are seeing astronomical increase from 14,18, to 4,230 and today we are talking about 14500,”he said.
Meanwhile, Enyindah has charged those involved in the programme to make the best use of it to improve themselves.
Addressing participants during the training, Enyindah who spoke on the rudiments of public works urged the participants to invest their monthly earnings on things that will improve their living conditions.
He charged them not to see their enrolment as a political patronage, adding that their names were not submitted by any politician.
Enyindah said their enrollment in the program was from the State Social Register, explaining that the programme was initiated by the World Bank to assist vulnerable people recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to him,as community workforce, it beholves on them to work in public spaces such as markets,, community play grounds, palaces, cleaning of gutters and drainages as well as planting of trees to help combat desertification and climate change in their communities.
Speaking on money management, an entrepreneurial catalyst for rural development, Dr Wofuri Robert told the participants not to waste their monthly earnings on things that will not improve their conditions
He urged them to choose a possibile line of investment that will enable them to develop their skills
Speaking on environmental safeguard, Mr Okechukwu Prince Osia urged them to work as a team while making sure that personal protective equipment are worn during working hours.
He also warned against indulging in alcohol, warning that any one caught in such act during working hours would be suspended.
By; John Bibor
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
John Bibor,/Esuuk Oyet/Suotor Memoye /Jeremiah Hannah
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