Officials from the Safeguards Unit of Delta State NEWMAP/EIB, including the Livelihood Officer, and the Communication Officer, posed for a group photograph with the newly elected Executive Committee of the Community Association for the Vanguard Area Erosion Rehabilitation Project in Okpanam, Asaba Capital Territory.
Stakeholders in Okpanam Community, including Landlords’ Associations of Amachai/Ogbe-zoma and Vanguard Area Erosion Sites have appreciated the Governor of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, for his gracious approval to the commencement of engineering designs and sudsequent civil works in the community.
The stakeholders gave the commendation when the management of Delta State Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (Delta NEWMAP), held a separate stakeholders’ engagement meeting with the indigenes and residents living along the corridors of the two erosion sites to kick-start the formation of Community Association (CA) and Site Committee (SC) executives, being prerequisite for supervision and monitoring exercise of the projects, in Okpanam, during the weekend.
The traditional ruler gave the commendation when he received, in audience, the management team of the Delta State Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project – EIB (Delta State NEWMAP), led by the Project Coordinator, Mr. Benedict Nwaokocha, who was in his Palace to brief the Ugoani the preparedness of the agency towards the commencement of the engineering design works and other environmental studies in Amachai/Ogbeozoma and Mable Hill Erosion Sites, preparatory to civil engineering works in the community.
Delta State Government has charged drivers of government agencies and consultancy firms to work according to the dreams of her MORE agenda of sustainable development for all parts of the state by working within the contractual agreement to meet up with projects’ stipulated time-line.
Delta State Government has charged the state Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to do more than their projects’ baseline to project the MORE agenda of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori administration in the state.
The Senior Policy Adviser, (SPA) to the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Funkekeme Solomon gave the charge at an interactive section and presentation of copies of Servicom document to the State Project Coordinator of Delta State NEWMAP/EIB, Mr. Benedict Nwaokocha, on Tuesday in Asaba.
Delta State Government has warned exploration companies operating in the state to stop exploitative ‘divide-and-rule system of operation capable of creating chaos and confusion among stakeholders in their host communities.
The Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tommy Ejiro Jamani handed down the warning during the presentation of the independent investigation reports carried out by the ministry’s stakeholders to ascertain the cause of the water (stream) pollution as reported in a petition from Ukwu-Nzu community a month ago.
Delta State Government has called on every community in the state to partner with her MORE agenda of environmental sustainability by promoting peace and harmonious co-existence among the companies doing business in its domain.
There are no hard and fast rules for this activity other than to confer some degree of security to the farm investment. Insecurity as a result of climate change has become a global phenomenon, which imposes a major challenge to human environments especially in the twenty-first century.
