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Oruma(Yiba-ama) community of the Ogbia council area of Bayelsa state has promised that it will continue to utilize finances accruing to the community for developmental projects and programmes.
This, according to the community leadership which spoke with National Wire Source recently is inevitable.
The community noted that following its track record of achievement in infrastructural projects and others it has executed successively through prudential management and deployment of funds, it intends to sustain the momentum, noting that funds which had accrued to the community through its host community cluster board, the Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board(KCCDB) has judiciously been used for development in the community.
In an interview with National Wire during a fact-finding tour of projects executed in the community by the trio of the state Government, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and the Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board(KCCDB), the trio of the Acting Community Development Committee(CDC) Chairman, Mr Iniebugu Aggo, the head CDC Directorate of Labour, Mr Olodi Chukwuma and the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the CDC, Mr ThankGod Ogubio described the community as one where funds and expenditures are accounted in the number of infrastructural projects and impactful programmes executed with the community’s funds.
They noted that the number of concrete roads criss-crossing the entire landscape of the community as well as other executed projects in the community were a testament to the fact that leadership in the community is peoples-centred.
The CDC helmsmen however, said ‘that unlike some host communities where cluster funds meant for projects are embezzled, in Oruma(Yiba-ama) community there is a paradigm shift’.
The trio commended the current management of the NDDC, saying upon assumption of office of the new Management, the interventionist agency, has continued to execute projects in the community and other places within the Niger Delta region.
The CDC also lauded successive democratic dispensations of the state, and the Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC), noting that while no fewer than 90%(percent) of the infrastructural projects in the community could be linked to the judicious deployment of funds from the SPDC funded Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board(KCCDB), the remaining ratio of projects executed in the community came directly from both the state Government and the NDDC.
While also thanking the paramount ruler of the community, HRH(Pere) W.D. Amakiri for his leadership qualities which the CDC leadership said has contributed to peaceful coexistence and judicious use of funds for the development of the community, they noted that the CDC will continue to work in tandem with laid down rules and regulations governing the community to fast track an all-encompassing development during their tenure at the helms of affairs of the Oruma(Yiba-ama) Community Development Committee (CDC).
The CDC leadership said: “Oruma (Yiba-ama)community is one in which all funds accruing are used for both infrastructural development and other community impacting programmes. Here we work as CDC members without embezzling funds like what some communities would do.
“So far, any funds that comes into the community from the SPDC through the hitherto existing Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board(KCCDB) is tied to one project or the other. So there’s no way you can as member(s) of CDC misappropriate or embezzle funds.
“We thank the new management of the NDDC, headed by our son, Chief Dr Samuel Ogbuku for all the projects he did in this community when he was chief of staff to former Bayelsa state Governor, Chief Timbre Sylva. And we again want to thank him for all the other projects he has done in this community upon assuming office as the MD/CEO of the NDDC.
“We also want to thank his Excellency, the Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri for all the projects he has executed in this community during his first term in office”.
