Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency (KSCSDA) has charged communities in the state that had benefitted from projects provided by the agency to cultivate maintenance culture to enable the projects to serve the communities optimally.
The KSCSDA general manager, Malam Momoh Dauda, gave the charge on Friday at Okpo in Olamaboro local government area during a one-day training programme organised for community project management committees across Kogi-east Senatorial districts.
Dauda, represented by the project officer in charge of information, education, communication and training, Pastor Dickson Itodo, said the aim and objective of the training was to equip the participants with the requisite knowledge of procedure of the agency in the areas of project maintenance to enable the projects serve the community for many years.
“I am also using this medium to let you know that all the projects such as bore-hole, clinic, skills acquisition centre, roads among others are for you and it is expedient for every community to protect and maintain the projects so that the capital investment on the projects does not waste,” he said.
Ameh Onoja, an engineer with the agency in his remarks, lamented that many viable projects provided for communities in most cases no longer served the people as a result of poor maintenance culture.
He urged the communities to imbibe the spirit of maintenance for project durability to enable them derive maximum utility.
The director of Local Government (DLG), Olamabaro, Mr. Ameh Diamian, commended the agency for providing the needed projects for communities in the local government, and gave the assurance that the projects would be maintained to serve the people better.
