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| Governor Yahaya Bello. |
The
Kogi government, through the Nigeria Erosion Watershed Management Project
(NEWMAP), has started paying compensation to over 250 Project Affected Persons
(PAP) at Adumu gully erosion sites in Ogugu Local Government Area of the state.
Chief
of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Edward Onoja, who spoke on behalf of the governor
in Ogugu, thanked the people of the community for their patience and endurance
and reiterated that Bello’s administration had taken the welfare of the people
as number one priority, stressing the need for them to give the governor their
total support.
He
urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the money to support their
businesses and livelihood, while urging Kogi NEWMAP to kick start the project
in earnest
Earlier,
the Project Coordinator of NEWMAP in the state, Mrs. Ladi Ahmed-Jato, while
handing over the cheques to the beneficiaries, said that the construction would
start immediately.
She
said:, “We are mindful of the fact that after compensation we will move into
site immediately, otherwise the people will go back to the area. So, we’ll move
to site immediately,” she said, adding that the people of Adumu community were
lucky to benefit from the intervention, saying many other vulnerable
communities in the state had been yearning for the same opportunity.
Mrs.
Jato urged the community to cooperate with the contractor that had been
mobilized to site for the civil work, and asked that all the affected persons
were captured by a World Bank certified consultant.
In
the same vein, the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Sanusi
Yahaya, thanked the state government for the payment of its counterpart fund of
N900 million for erosion control in the state, even as the traditional ruler
(Eje) of Olamaboro, Chief Simon Ujah, appreciated the state government, World
Bank and NEWMAP for bringing the community to limelight adding that the project
will save it from the erosion menace.
Speaking
on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Rachael Adejoh, thanked the state
government and NEWMAP for fulfilling their promise, assuring that they would
utilize the money given to them judiciously.
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