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Ihedioha flags-off work on gully erosion abandoned for eight years, pays counterpart fund

by The Eagle Online
July 12, 2019
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Ihedioha flags-off work on gully erosion abandoned for eight years, pays counterpart fund
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The Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, has flagged-off the Ezemazu Urualla gully erosion erosion control project at Urualla in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State.
The project, which cost was put at N9,981,765,514.14, is being supervised by the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, while Arab Contractors will handle it.
Ihedioha said his administration had paid the N500 million counterpart funding to NEWMAP, an agency of the World Bank, under the Federal Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, to bring lasting solutions to the problems of erosion in the state and open doors for development partners to come in.
He said: “It is the priority of the government to safeguard lives and properties of Imolites.
“Erosion poses a threat to both.
“Hence when NEWMAP called on the state government for partnership, I directed that half a billion Naria counterpart funding be paid to the agency, whose track records are known to the us.”
The Imo number one citizen, who commissioned the erosion control scheme at Ideato North civic center, decried the infrastructural decay in the state and financial recklessness of the past administration but assured that his administration is prepared for governance and in a hurry to redevelop the state.
Governor Ihedioha said: “We are in a hurry to redevelop Imo State and we will stop at nothing to restore the glory days of the state.
“Records available to us suggest that huge amount of money was mapped out by the previous administration to remedy the menace of erosion in Ideato North and other places.
“Sadly but unsurprisingly, the projects were not carried out and the funds were not accounted for, leaving the residents at the mercy of flooding for the past five years.
“The site has no doubt discouraged economic activities between Orsu and Ideato North Local Government Councils as it links to a major market in Orsu LGA, Ekeututu Market.”
The governor noted that no government can succeed without partnering with agencies like NEWMAP.
Ihedioha said: “What we commissioned today is a project worth N9.8 billion, but we only had to pay half a billion to have access to it.
“This is so because we know how to properly engage the services of agencies like NEWMAP for the development of our state.”
Reassuring that both rural and urban areas would get equal attention from the government, he said: “We came here to keep to our words that Imo will be on one page.
“I said there will be no north, there will be no south.
“Imo will be a one stop shop.
“What is important to us is to improve the quality of lives of our people irrespective of where you came from.”
In his remarks, the team leader of NEWMAP, Dr. Amos Abu, said Ihedioha had shown purpose in leadership and interest in the welfare of Imolites.
Abu noted that Ihedioha displayed wisdom by cashing in on the olive branch extended by the agency.
Abu, who was represented by the National Project coordinator of NEWMAP, Alhaji Salisu Dahiru, said: “The erosion site is the biggest of all the works NEWMAP is doing in Nigeria.
“Imo governor is interested in the welfare of his people.
“The Community and the people must consider themselves lucky for having a governor that is interested in bringing projects home.
“For more than eight years we have had this gully erosion site.
“In less than two months, the project has been flagged off by the Governor.
“That, for us, is a mark of leadership.”
The Governor was accompanied to the commissioning by Chima Nwana, the Deputy Chief of Staff; P. G. U. Madu, Chief Technical Adviser; Chinedu Okpalaeke; Chief Chineme Ihuaku; and Permanent Secretaries among other top government officials.

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