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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
The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has called on the Management of Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC to embark on the water projects in Buguma city in Asari Toru Local Government Area, Rivers state
The Group called on the Rivers state government to revamp the Buguma fish farm to create employment for the teeming youths
On the water project in Buguma, MOSIEND said the population of Buguma has increased tremendously as the residents need more water projects to enhance the daily livelihood of the people
The Group also appealed to the Chairman of the council to assist in making the project a reality and attracts more developmental projects to the city
This call was on Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt, Radio program, Talk of the Town, by MOSIEND Eastern Zonal Coordinator of MOSIEND Half Hour Comrade Tammy Bruce Longjohn alongside Mark Ojuka,Chairman of Buguma and Hon Sandra Owunari JP Chairman Obuama and monitored by our correspondent
Comrade Ojuka also called on the Management of Liquidifed Natural Gas NLG to embark on a free medical outreach in all Kala bari communities to improve their health status
He appealed to LNG to award scholarship to indigens of Kalabari communities in tertiary institutions to better their education, noting the company is doing same in Bonny, abandoning Kalabari communities
“We need contracts, free medical, scholarships and employment including skill acquisition programs for our teeming youths in Kalabari extractions ”
On Security, Mark Ojuka said security in Buguma is at zero level with the help of the Ama Ma soldiers the city is more peaceful and investors friendly as the youths of area have cordial relationship with the security agencies in the area
“Security is very secured in Buguma clan”
He called on the Rivers state to revamp the Buguma fish farm to create employment for the teeming youths
“The youths are asking for human capacity building in the area to reduce unemployment”
“The revamping of the Buguma fish farm will also reduce youth violence”
Also Speaking, Eastern Zonal Coordinator of MOSIEND Half Hour Comrade Tammy Bruce Longjohn called for more improve in infrastructures in Kalabari community, especially in electricity
There is little improvement in terms of electricity in Buguma city
He decried the deplorable condition
of Buguma Health Centre, saying that the hospital is near functional
“Our sisters that are pregnant and our sick parents can not access the health centre for a better treatment ”
Describing the Health Centre as an eye saw, he called on Rivers state government and Buguma Local Government chairman Hon William to improve on facilities in the centre and make it more medically accessible to the sick persons in the area
Buguma, Tammy Bruce said is the spiritual headquarter of Kalabari people as such deserve more modern facilities from the government to improve lives
The Coordinator called on government, stakeholders and oil companies to assist and improve the poor infrastructural facilities in area
“We need first class hospitals, qualified medical doctors and nurses in the health centres and hospitals”
On the oil spilled in Obuoma Chairman MOSIEND Obuoma, Hon Sandra Owunari said the spill destroyed their crops and Rivers even polluted their only source of drinking water
She expressed displeasure that Rivers state government did not send any relief materials to the people in the affected community
On Chieftaincy title to women in Obuama, Hon Sandra Owunari said the community do not install Chieftaincy title to women, saying that Chieftaincy title is only reserved for men only in the community
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