By Emmanuel Ekebe
As part of his score card after one year in office, Hon. Andaye Rawlings Dagidi, Chairman of Bomadi Local Government Council has lined up a number completed projects to be commissioned shortly.
Reeling out the list of the people oriented projects and activities during a chat on Wednesday with the state working committee of the Delta state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and other News men in his office, the Chairman said that he has completed about 15 projects and programmes within the past one year.
According to Hon. Dagidi, the projects include an ultra modern multi purpose 3,000 sitting capacity event center to be named after the Delta state first lady, Deaconess Mrs. Tobore Oborevwori, a new Chapel for worship every morning before resumption of duty by all Council staff and functionaries, renovated Council Chairman’s lodge and a new Vice Chairman lodge.
He also mentioned the initial intervention in the hitherto impassable Ohoror-Bomadi road before the Delta state Government awarded the reconstruction to Nigeria cat, the concrete access roads to the Chairman’s office and Atlas Obi street with two side drains, complete renovation of the Bomadi High Court Building, Judge’s quarter and the access road even when not in the primary purview of the local government council.
The Council has equally completed the renovation of two staff quarters and constructed a new pavilion within the Council premises while putting finishing touches to landscaping the 5,000 capacity space beside the event center.
On human capacity development,the Council Chairman who was flanked by his Vice, Secretary to the Local Government Council, LGA party Chairman and other senior Council staff and political appointees, disclosed that 400 youths drawn from across the wards were trained in various skills and equipped as a deliberate effort to curb unemployment. Similarly, the Bomadi Local Government Council is also catering for the aged above 70 who are given basic provisions and stipends every first Thursday of the month.
On security, Hon. Dagidi said the Council under his watch procured two brand new Sienna buses for the police to enhance their duty in ensuring safety of lives and property in the area.
One other outstanding achievement within the first year in office he said is the reconnection of Bomadi to the National grid which had not been functional for the past 17 years.
According to the Chairman,”the area had been in darkness for so long but this administration took up the challenge despite the huge cost involved and today, the people are happy”.
The Chairman disclosed further that the Council had equally fared well in the health sector as it regularly provides drug and kits to all primary health centers in the Council area particularly during the last Cholera outbreak.
He stated that when the Bureau of Statistics team visit in the course of assessing the 774 local government councils in the country, Bomadi was highly commended for it’s laudable efforts for which he was invited to Abuja for a special Award recently.
In his response, the head of the NUJ team and Chairman of the state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Churchill Oyowe thanked Hon. Dagidi for being the first Council Chairman to promptly asceed to the request for a project tour at the grass roots to ascertain their veracity.
He emphasised that it is the role of the media to hold those in authority accountable and to interrogate how those in government have impacted on the people they are elected to serve.
Oyowe then commended Hon. Dagidi for the great strides within one year in office and enjoined him to intensify efforts in delivering more people oriented projects in his Council.
The journalists were later conducted round the various projects which are set for commissioning soon by the state governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori.
