The president of Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, Chief Christie Obiaruko Ndukwe has urged the newly elected Rivers LG Chairmen to carryout Real-time empowerment and project execution
Chief Oby who gave the encouragement via her Facebook page said, “The newly elected LG Chairmen have to prove that it was worth the stress by doing things differently this time around! Real-time empowerment and project execution! Enough of buying cars and displaying them as projects! Let’s see those who have something new to bring to the table with their first monthly allocation.”
“No more commissioning of stuff like refurbished Transformers that may never work or erecting low-budget Solar lights better described as “Tilley” lamps” she said.
She advised that “boreholes must be with high-end overhead tanks and proper reticulation and solar energy to power at all times z even if the people can pay a token to have water all the time.”
According to her, “we need the era of road construction of 500m and 1km roads to help farmers and traders. Mass mobilization vehicles to help farmers and traders to and fro the farms and markets. They can also pay a token to get these rides.
Next, access to health centers with emergency services and for primary health Care. With the allocations they receive considering the increased Federal Government allocations to States and Local Govt Councils, these things are doable.”
Continuing she asked, “What exactly are the people asking for?
It is not too much to write their names in gold at the end of their tenure.
Latest SUVs and priority vehicles will always be there. Littering your compound with them translates to nothing but a flagrant display of avarice in the state of unwantom lack! The security they seek is also good for the people they govern! Security votes should be rightly deployed to take care of local insecurity especially in the cosmopolitan LGAs like Obio/Akpor, Port Harcourt, Oyigbo, Etche and Emohua while not leaving out the rest.
Water Transportation is more than necessary now. It is not luxury but premium – a complete necessity!
Building castles that none may ever visit after your tenure is tantamount to building Modern prisons for you and your spouse, moreso when your children have been sent to foreign schools and may become westernized that they either don’t return or give into such tastes again! ”
She congratulated the winners and hoped that they can compete favourably on who would become the next MVP, even as she urged them to appoint those who have what it takes to help them reach their goals and not just praise singers.
The song writer said: “We shall only be remembered by the works we have done”, she quoted.
By Fidel Njamanze
