From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency, on Thursday, began the training of communities and groups across the three senatorial districts of the state on facility maintenance and effective management of the micro projects placed at their disposal.
The General Manager of the Agency, Mallam Dauda Momoh while declaring the training open in Okene, said that the effort is aimed at enabling the benefiting Communities and Groups to imbibe maintenance culture of the Micro Projects executed by them with the support of his organisation.
He said that the training would also equip the beneficiaries on how best to source and generate funds to sustain the projects.
The General Manager stressed the need for maintenance of facilities within the immediate society such as Clinics, Town Halls, Markets and Schools among others in order to” keep them in good condition continuously, extend the life span of such Facilities, prevent them from burning, vandalization and collapse”
Momoh commended various communities and groups in the state for their initiative to embark on self-help projects that are of immense beneficial in improving their living standard and urged them to sustain the tempo.
He also assured the Communities of the determination of his agency to continue to support them in getting more projects executed for them.
“We are still working hard on how to get more money from government to give more support towards the provision of community development projects” Momoh promised.
Participating Communities and Groups were trained in basic health, environmental sanitation, water, electrification and manual facility maintenance by engineers of various specialisation drawn from government departments.