The Abia State Government has issued a statement of her plan to start community development programmes to ensure even allocation of socio-economic growth in rural areas.
The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Mr Okey Kanu, said this on Monday after the State Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, he also noted that the programmes, known as “Community Choose Your Project”, would be carried out via the Abia State Community Social Development Agency.
“The government’s efforts to rebuild Abia will not just be focused on Aba and Umuahia.
“Government is being strategic in its bid to rebuild the state and has decided to move to the hinterlands,” he said.According to him, government officials will tour various rural communities to interact with the people to know the what infrastructure they will need for their various communities.
Kanu said that the people would choose the projects that they want the government to deliver in their communities, adding that the cost of executing the project must not be more than N15 million.
He said that the government had put in place a measure known as equity participation to ensure that the programme would be a huge success.
