ENUGU -The Enugu State House of Assembly Committee on Rural Development and Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) has charged the Enugu State Rural Electrification Board to partner relevant stakeholders for speedy electrification of rural committees in the state.
Member representing Nkanu East State constituency and Chairman of the committee, Rt. Hon Paul Nnajiofor gave the charge on Tuesday when he led members of the committee on a familiarisation tour to Enugu Rural Electrification Board, ENREB, club road, Garden Avenue, Enugu.
Nnajiofor who commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwanyi for his massive rural development initiatives advised the board to sustain the rural development policy of the state government.
According to him, lighting up the rural communities in the state, could bring about economic advancement and discourage rural-urban migration.
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He assured the Board that the committee will support in ensuring the speedy execution of all ongoing electricity projects in the state.
The House Committee Chairman also tasked the Board on accountability, probity, and transparency in the discharge of its stator responsibility.
“Time has gone when they will come to a community to install transformer bought by government money, energize it, give it to a substation and the people will not be aware’ he said.
Speaking further, he said “The stakeholders must be aware to appreciate the effort of the governor and promote the governor’s activities as Ugwuanyi led administration has done very well in many communities but some stakeholders were not aware.
On his part, the General Manager of Enugu State Rural Electrification Board, Mr. Onyema Odo, commended the Assembly for the synergy between them and the executive arm of government.
Odo said that rural electrification had a lot to do in rural development, adding that if they did not develop rural areas, urban areas could not contain everybody.
He thanked the state governor and his teams for working out modalities to ensure that those rural communities enjoyed amenities like urban cities.
He encouraged the communities to work with the community leaders, the town union leaders, the vigilante, and the police in their various communities to guard the projects.
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