Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that the projects earmarked for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in May are on course.
\nChief Wike gave the assurance yesterday shortly after a tour of some of the projects in the company of some state legislators including, Chief Whip of the Assembly, Hon. Evans Bipi, his deputy, Hon. Major Jack,Kelechi Nwogu and Smarte Adoki.
\nHe\u00a0 expressed the hope that before the end of April, the Ecumenical Centre will get to roofing level, while The Pleasure Park will also be near completion.
\n\u201cWe are quite happy that we have began to fulfill the promises we had made to our people\u201d, he said, adding \u201cthis is a jubilee year; the government will concentrate on people oriented projects\u201d.
\nWith various projects dotted around the State, the governor reasoned that the citizens will show confidence in the government and promised not to disappoint them.
\nCommenting on why the legislators joined in projects inspection, Chief Wike noted that it forms part of their oversight function, and will further enhance the relationship between the Legislature and Executive.
\nAccording to him, the projects tour afford the lawmakers first hand information on how the state fund were being utilized, \u201ceven though they have oversight function, sometimes it\u2019s good to boost the relationship between the executive and legislature working together for the interest of the state.
\nAppreciating the development efforts of the governor, Deputy Whip of the House, Hon. Major Jack affirmed that the state Assembly is ready to approve more funds for the governor to embark on projects.
\nHe said, \u201cwhat we have seen is that projects are up to 60 to 80 per cent completed, it shows that the budget is being implemented, and if he comes asking for more we will approve for him to work\u201d.
\nOn his part, the House Whip, Hon. Bipi said, \u201cwe have come we have seen. We are impressed. The governor has shown that he is actually, \u201cMr. Project\u201d.
\nThe Ogu\/Bolo legislator said they were performing their oversight function, and\u00a0 they were impressed with what they saw.
\nThe projects tour took the governor and the legislators to the Bonny\/Bille\/Nembe, jetty Project in Old Township, Woji\/Akpajo Link Road, The Pleasure Park and ended at the Ecumenical Centre under construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that the projects earmarked for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in May are on course. Chief Wike gave the assurance yesterday shortly after a tour of some of the projects in the company of some state legislators including, Chief Whip of the Assembly, Hon. Evans Bipi, his deputy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":146116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-front-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}