Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has given a grant of
N1 million to Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area to argument steps taken by
the council on developmental projects, including the linking of Bolo
Town to the national grid to boost social and economic activities in the
area.
Amaechi, who spoke on Thursday at a Town Hall Meeting with the people
of Ogu/Bolo, at Ogu, the headquarters of Ogu/Bolo local government area
of the state, said: “The cardinal projects in my administration are
education, health, road and power. Your chairman has done well in the
area of power, we will support her with a N100 million grant, because
the Ogu/Bolo council has taken the rural electrification project which
is also our priority project in the area of power.”
The governor noted that it was strategically important for his
administration to commence the building of a Model Secondary School in
the area by June this year, while urging the people of Ogu/Bolo to
provide 21 hectares of land for the school.
“It is your entitlement, we hold the money for Rivers people and
before June this year, we will bring out the money and mobilise
contractors to site, I also want the commissioner for education to bring
me the survey plan to ensure we have 21 hectares of land, this is
government project, so ignore who owns the land, let us get 21 hectares
of land. This is because, it is not only Ogu/Bolo people that will go to
school there, it is the entire Rivers State,” Amaechi said.
He assured the people of Ogu/Bolo that his administration will build
more health centres in Ogu, Wakama, Bolo and Ele communities.
“We will provide more health centres in Ogu, Wakama, Bolo, Ele,
because the people are surrounded by water, so if a woman wants to
deliver at midnight, where will she go to? You can’t say Bolo is close
to Okrika or Wakama, so, we can say, let the different communities have
their health centres,” Amaechi said.
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