Breaking: Gov Nwifuru sets to disburse fund for EB_CSDA projects, warns against sharp practice

Ebonyi state governor, Francis Nwifuru has set for the training and disbursement of fund to the one hundred communities qualified for the twelve million and five hundred thousand naira community development projects.

Flagging off the training at Re Meritona Hotel Abakaliki, the governor, stated that the event anchored by Ebonyi State Community and Social Development Agency, EB-CSDA in collaboration with Ministry of Human Capital Development and Monitoring would not tolerate sharp practice. Nwifuru who was represented at the event by the state Commissioner for Human Capital Development and Monitoring, Mrs Ann Aligwe charged the benefiting communities to make judicious use of the fund to execute their choice projects.

The Commissioner who said that the programme is in line with the governor's Peoples Charter of Needs agenda noted that he made the fund available for the implementation of community projects for one hundred communities in the state. She stressed that the fund would be paid into communities's account in less than three days of the training and warned the benefiting communities to make judicious use of the fund as government would not tolerate shabby jobs or sharp practices.

The General Manager,Ebonyi state community and social Development Agency, EB-CSDA, Mr James Iroh, said that fifteen members of Community Project Management Committee were selected from each of the communities for the training as to ensure proper monitoring and implementation of the projects and added that with the support of NGOs and units that the project would be properly supervised according to the global standard of the Agency. He called on the committee to imbibe on what they learnt during the training and thanked governor Nwifuru for making fund available for the full execution of the projects.

The chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ebonyi state chapter, Comrade Samson Nwafor who is also the chairman implementation committee of Amuzu Community in Ezza South Council Area who commended the state governor for his good governance described the training as impactful stating that the opportunity was to direct committee on the best approach to executing the project and promised to protect them for the fulfilment of the purpose it was executed.

Also, Mr Ewa Nworie, who represented Eka-Awoke community in Ikwo, and Mrs Nwabugo Nwankwo of Ezza-Ofu Community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi state said the intensive training was meant to empower the committees with the prerequisite knowledge on how to carry out the world Bank Assited projects in their various communities in line with the world Bank approved standard and promised to carry the assignment optimally. Saintakpomiemie.blogspot.com reports that the one day training programme was organized for community project management committee (CPMCs), Local Government Desk Officers,(MDA DOCs) in the third batch of 54 communities that qualified for Agency support under the NG-CARES programme of World Bank Assisted Projects.