KWSG expends $2.8m on community projects
The Kwara State Government has so far expended the sum of $2.8million on community micro project since the World Bank Additional Financing of Community and Social Development Projects, to enable government provide necessary infrastructural facilities for rural communities across the state.
The newly appointed Board Chairman of Kwara State Community and Social Development Agency (KWCSDA), Alhaji Salihu, Ayinla Alamoyo disclosed this recently, at the just concluded Cheque presentation ceremony to another set of 20 communities.
Alamoyo, who gave applauded Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed for his administration’s ontribution of the mandatory N50 million to ensure the continuity of the project, charged benefitting communities to expend the money judiciously on their choice projects.
While handling over cheques to the beneficiaries, Alamoyo urged them to reciprocate the gesture by ensuring that the project is completed on time and put to use. He congratulated them for being part of the government initiative and efforts at ensuring a better living for the people, at the grass root.
In his remarks, the Acting General Manager, KWCSDA, Alhaji Yahaya Ahmed said since the commencement of Additional Financing (AF), the state government has intervened in 123 rural communities, through Kwara State Community and Social Development Agency, with 141 community micro projects funded in the sectors of water, electricity, education and health among others, all completed and in use, while others are ongoing.
Ahmed also intimated the gathering that, the sum of N44, 401, 743. 09 were disbursed to the 20 communities as first tranche of the total amount, at the just concluded Cheque Presentation/Community Project Launch.
Lending his voice at the event, the Secretary to Kwara State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Sola Gold who was represented by the state Commissioner for Planning and Economic Development, Alhaji Wasiu Odewale appealed to all the benefiting communities to expend the money judiciously in the implementation of their projects, as accountability and transparency is germane to the project execution.
Expressing appreciation to the state government, the Emir of Ilorin, Dr Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, represented by Ubandawaki of Pakata, Alhaji Mahamud Baba Ubandawaki assured that the communities would be just, fair and transparent in the implementation of their various projects, by sticking to the specification of the agency.
The 20 communities that recently benefited from Kwara State Community and Social Development Projects are; Ago Oja, Shagbe, Gbere, Sheji, Babanla, Araromi, Atari, Ginda, Iji-Isin, Ajilete, Gumbagi, Tswako, Indafatifin, Olarewaju Amodi, Tsonfada Jiyade, Pakata, Oke-Aba, Sodegba Magaji Okaka and Omomere in Asa, Ifelodun, Edu, Moro, Ilorin South, Offa, Isin and Ilorin West Local Government respectively.