Nine communities in Kogi State have benefitted from N150 million micro-projects intervention from Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency (KGCSDA).

Presenting the cheques to the beneficiaries in Lokoja, yesterday, General Manager of KGCSDA, Chief Dauda Momoh, said the 21 micro-projects executed in the nine communities are worth over N150 million.

He disclosed that N15 million worth of projects executed in each of the communities cut across water, hospitals and schools.
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The agency, he noted, is still intervening in other communities under the NGCares programme.

While advising the communities that have completed their projects and those that received their retention fees to own the projects, Momoh said the agency would, from time to time, visit the communities to monitor the projects to ensure adequate utilisation.

Momoh added that communities, who completed their projects and put them into good use, would enjoy more from the state government.

He thanked the communities that successfully completed their projects for working to specifications and delivering on time.

The communities that benefited from the projects include Abache, Adavi Eba, Angwa Ogebe, Asanta, Bagido, Ebogogo, Eika Ohizenyi, Ebokehi and Gboloko.

While receiving cheques worth N5.4 million as retention fee for the successful completion of the projects, representatives of the communities, in their separate remarks, thanked Governor Yahaya Bello for the gesture, pointing out that the projects greatly reduced the sufferings of people.

They attributed the successful completion of the projects to close supervision by KGCSDA and the timely release of funds by the government.

Assuring the governor that they would own the projects by guarding them jealously and use it judiciously, the communities said the projects were made possible by the governor’s interest in alleviating their sufferings.
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