Oborevwori's M.O.R.E AGENDA Is For Development Of All Deltans - Emakpor Odogu ~ Truth Reporters

 

By Kelvin Ohoror 

The Executive Assistant to the Governor of Delta State on Community Development Hon. Emakpor Odogu has revealed that the M.O.R.E Agenda of the Executive Governor of Delta State Elder Sheriff Francis Oborevwori is a template for the development of the entire communities in the 25 local government area in Delta State.

He made this known during an interview in Delta Broadcasting Service television programme, morning ride, noting that Elder Sheriff Francis Oborevwori is resolute in his administration's promise on the M.O.R.E Agenda.

According to him, the template is typical of the State  Government's plans to bring meaningful development to all the communities in the State and one thing that is pivotal in the scheme of things, is to interface with traditional rulers, community leaders, people's representatives, at the grassroot levels.

 He emphasized that relationships engagement will bring to bear, a common front, where the government will appreciate and know exactly the needs of the people in order to avoid misplacement of priorities, as well as  capable artisans from within the communities where projects are being executed, will be meaningfully engaged for economic enhancement and development.

He added that apart from creating more platforms for huge opportunities for all Deltans, Governor Oborevwori's administration is leaving no stone unturned, in the areas of drastic and realistic reforms, enhanced Peace and Security for all deltans, as a continuation of his predecessor's achievements, with the Delta communities in mind.

He further said that the vast nature and needs of communities in Delta State places a high demand for a high calibre of gigantic Developmental projects and it takes an initiative of a leader with full capacity and commitments such as the uncommon Governor that we have, in the person of His Excellency, Rt Hon (Elder) Sheriff  Oborevwori.

He noted that in the last tour of the three Senatorial Districts his team led by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Community Development Chief Anthony Ofoni had the opportunity to meet with the Royal Fathers, traditional leaders and community heads, to fine-tune some of the empowerment program plans different from what has been on ground. 

He said the Community Development agency, being an Executive arm of the office of His Excellency is not a contract awarding agencies like the DLA, Ministry of works and such like, play the role of bridging the gap existing between the community and the local contractors. This is to ensure that the job needs of the people are identified and forwarded to His Excellency as input for His considerations.

"Our engagement with the community is to create a friendly peaceful atmosphere to enable speedy and adequate project delivery. We ensure that we work in tandem with the project monitoring team for quality delivery", he stated.

He commended the Governor for keeping to his campaign promises on quality job delivery to the people and the entire Delta Communities for awarding various roads and Bridge contracts to a well known Giant Company in the Construction Industry, JULIUS BERGER, which is an indication of promise kept for a first phase take-off projects to develop the communities. 

Hon Emakpor also revealed that the agency will always intervene, to ensure there is peace and security put in place, where there are challenges of community staged-crises by indigenes, to disrupt the efforts of government in developing the community, in the name of development fees 'deve',  as this has been abolished by Government. 

He further stated that Government will continue to train, retrain and empower the artisans groups, through skill acquisition instead of importing the so-called workmen from the neighboring countries for our local jobs. This administration will continue to discourage the sale of starter packs by trained artisans.