By Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki
Ebonyi State governor, Chief Francis Nwifuru has set for the training and disbursement of funds to the one hundred communities qualified for the twelve million and five hundred thousand naira community development projects, CDP.
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 the Ministry of Human Capital Development and Monitoring would not tolerate the sharp practice.
Nwifuru who was represented at the event by the state Commissioner for Human Capital Development and Monitoring, Mrs. Ann Aligwe said that the program is in line with the People's Charter of Needs agenda charged the benefiting communities to make judicious use of the fund to execute their choice projects.
She stressed that the fund would be paid into communities's accounts after the training and warned the benefiting communities against shoddy jobs stating that the government would not tolerate sharp practices.
The General Manager, of Ebonyi State Community and Social Development Agency, EB-CSDA, Mr James Iroh, said that fifteen members of the Community Project Management Committee were selected from each of the communities for the training 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.
The chairman, of 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 described the training as impactful stating that the opportunity was to direct the committee on the best approach to executing the project and promised to protect them for the fulfillment of the purpose it was executed.
Also, Mr Ewa Nworie, who represented the Eka-Awoke community in Ikwo, and Mrs. Nwabugo Nwankwo of the 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 Assisted projects in their various communities in line with the World Bank approved standard and promised to carry the assignment optimally.
Our Correspondent reports that the one-day training program was organized for community project management committee (CPMCs) and local Government Desk Officers,(MDA DOCs) in the third batch of 54 communities that qualified for Agency support under the NG-CARES program of World Bank Assisted Projects.
