Chima Azubuike, Gombe
Gombe State Agency for Community and Social Development has said it expended over 2.9 billion naira on Community Driven Initiatives CDI in the last ten years in the State.
The General Manager of the Agency Abubakar Ardo Kumo stated this on Wednesday, while delivering account of stewardship to Community Project Management Committee CPMC drown from communities who have so far benefited from the Agency’s intervention.
Kumo said the Agency deemed it necessary to invite signatories from Community Project Management Committee CPMC in communities that have so far benefited from the Agency’s intervention in order to intimate them on the overall performance of the social development organisation.
He said, “it was only normal for the Agency to display it accounting books for everyone to see its income and expenditures in the interest of transparency and accountability adding that the Agency which is largely sponsored by the World Bank is build on the principles of accountable and responsive leadership.
“In the last 10 year the Agency has constructed numerous classrooms and examination halls, health care centres, VIP toilets, electrification of communities across the State and construction of orphanages among other projects that have direct bearing on the needs of the people.”
While commending Governor Inuwa Yahaya for intervening in accelerating the activities of the Agency through prompt payment of counterpart funding saying the Governor has equally Commissioned some projects of the Agency, the first of its kind in the history of the Agency.
He said communities across the State have shown greater interest in the activities of the Agency giving the number of applications the Agency has received requesting for intervention.
The General Manager of the Gombe State Agency for Community and Social Development said following the expiration of the current project, Governor Mohammed Inuwa Yahaya has made a case for the State to be included in next phase of the project which will now be known as Nigeria Covid-19 Action Response and Economic Stimulus.
On their part, the Managers Administration and Finance Haruna Imam as well as that of operations Labilwa Ismaila charged communities that have so far benefited from the Agency’s intervention to take full ownership of projects at their domain so as to guarantee its its longevity.
They said community ownership of project have been proven to the best way to sustain intervention for a very long time.
Some members of the Community Project Management Committee said the Gombe State Agency for Community and Social Development has displayed a rare attitude to project Management and execution.
While recalling with nostalgia the ease at which the Agency intervene in their various communities through the execution of community driven projects, the members of the Community project Management committee CPMC praise the Gombe State Government for making a case for the State to be included in the new project code named Nigeria Covid-19 Action Response and Economic Stimulus CARES.
