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The Chairman of Igbo-Etiti local government area, Hon. Ikenna Nwodo has said that the opportunity given to the people to directly handle the execution of projects located in their domain would bring out the best as intended.
The Mayor spoke at the officially flag off of the drainage, flood control works and general rehabilitation of the Egugwu-Elu Orie Uwelu-Ugwu Ojiyi roads in Aku. He said that the best way to ensure inclusivity, quality of project and unlimited commitment of the people towards projects was to let the people drive them.
He said, “if you noticed, most of the major projects we are doing in communities are handled by the people. As this is the government of the people, the people choose what they want, we give them our team and they carry out a study and sum the project, then the community comes up with the design and award the jobs themselves. Our role is to finance and co supervise.”
This way, according to him, the projects would get the best of inputs as they would be executed to the best of standards as nobody would like to shortchange himself.
He noted that this is a natural instinct of man to give himself the best, which at the end of the day would eliminate failure of projects and put up to prominence the moniker of Igbo-Etiti as the manpower base of the state.
The Chairman said he was happy that not only that local expertise were being patronized, they were also being given the opportunity to prove their mettle for more patronage.
The President of Association of Aku Engineers and Allied Professionals, Engr. Alloy Ezeugwu, the association under whose auspices and on behalf of the community the project is being executed, thanked the Mayor for his innovative approach to governance and development which put the people at the center of everything. He expressed the delight of the entire people of Aku community who at last would not only be getting a permanent reprieve from the perennial menace of erosion in that area but would also be directly involved in doing so to their satisfaction.
The flag off of the two-phase project which would be costing about two hundred and eighty million Naira was attended by royal fathers, Igwe James Elamu and Igwe Charles Ochi, other community leaders, stakeholders, government officials and members of the public.
