The Rivers State government has warned all Community Development Committees (CDCs),\u00a0 Cluster Development Boards (CDBs) and other quasi-administrative structures it set up with the host communities and oil companies\u2019 residents, to fast-tract development in these communities to work in tandem with their respective traditional institutions or be dissolved.\u00a0 The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Dr Tammy Danagogo handed down the warning last week Monday, in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the Kula Regional Development Council (KRDC).\u00a0 The Commissioner noted\u00a0 that the previous council was dissolved because of \u201cdivided loyalty, internal wrangling and destructive clash of interests among members\u201d.
\n\u00a0 He recounted numerous efforts made by the state government in collaboration with the State Security Service (SSS), to foster peace in Kula Kingdom in the Akuku Toru Local Government Area (AKULGA) and how, in the process, Chief Kroma Amabibi Eleki-Sara XIV, was recognised as the rightful king of the community, a development which led to the upgrading of the royal stool to a 3rd class status, a development that would count for the good of the community and its citizens.
\n\u00a0 According to the commissioner, that recognition requires the existence of other functional governance structures, thus the importance of the Kula Regional Development Council (KRDC), which was designed to conceive and implement specific projects and programmes in conjunction with Chevron Nig Ltd and\u00a0 the state government for Kula and its constituent areas.
\n\u00a0 He reiterated that\u00a0 the ministry would not accept situations where appointees into such governance structures like Community Project Advisory Councils, Cluster Development Boards, or Foundations and Community Development Committees, etc behaves like autonomous bodies and become rival authorities in their respective communities, instead of being complementary organs designed to coordinate and activate the community development process in the state.
\n\u00a0 In his remarks, the Amanyanabo of Kula Kingdom, Chief Kroma Eleki-Sara XIV, expressed optimism that the real indigenes of Kula would not inhabit the community\u2019s progress, regretting that several sad events had taken place in Kula over the years.
\n\u00a0 The royal father, however, commended the commissioner for the pains he took in midwifing the present momentum for the development of Kula, in spite of \u201cthe abuses and blackmail that you suffered in the process\u201d.
\n\u00a0 Speaking after the inauguration of the 20-member KRDC, the chairman, Mr. Stanley Benibo assured that \u201cour efforts, as members of this council, will be geared towards the realisation of the three-point vision of the Amanyanabo of Kula, HRM King Kroma Amabibi Eleki-Sara XIV, which is to ensure the physical and infrastructural development of Kula and turn it from a rural settlement to a semi-urban community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Rivers State government has warned all Community Development Committees (CDCs),\u00a0 Cluster Development Boards (CDBs) and other quasi-administrative structures it set up with the host communities and oil companies\u2019 residents, to fast-tract development in these communities to work in tandem with their respective traditional institutions or be dissolved.\u00a0 The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}