By Kelvin Ohoror
Chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area, Hon. Friday Ovoke Warri, has reeled out his achievements in his first year in office, and empowered 55 women from the 11 wards in the council area with the sum of N200, 000 each to boost their small scale businesses.
Addressing newsmen at the council secretariat, Oleh, Hon.Warri said he had on resumption of office, visited bad spot at Ogbemudia Road, Oleh “that has been there for years and the bad spot was repaired with drainage and is now motorable for commuters.
“He stated that the Irri/Oyede road that was in a bad shape was fixed by his administration and now 100 percent motorable.
He further said that the council gate was equally remodeled, he noted that his administration remodeled the local government council chairman quarter with the state of the art facilities.
“The administrative block building that was abandoned for over a decade was taken as priority project by this administration. Today, work has started and in the next couple of months the project will be completed for commissioning”, he said.
Warri also pointed out that his administration was able to tackle cholera outbreak at Ikpide-Irri community.
He pointed out that one of the major cardinal point of his administration was agriculture, the council chairman said: “my administration deemed it fit to embark on farming that is profitable. As I speak to you, our pepper farm is doing well, we have started harvesting”.
In the area of education, Warri said he had paid unscheduled visit to some primary schools and “discovered that many teachers were not coming to work. We embarked on a screening process and the report is ready. We also embarked on the distribution of notebooks to all primary schools in the local government area”.
He also said leadership tussle in some communities notably Igbide and Olomoro were laid to rest with new leadership put in place.
