Special Adviser to Benue state Governor on Media and ICT, Mr. Tahav Agerzua, has stressed the need for communities to protect public utilities provided for them.
Agerzua gave the charge at the weekend while handing over a rehabilitated motorised borehole at the Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) Primary School, Akerior, to the Kindred Head of Nyav, in Utange ward of Ushongo local government area, Chief Mvaaorga Ubo. He said since members of the community were the beneficiaries of such projects, it was their responsibility to protect them against vandalism. The Governor’s aide expressed regrets that the borehole had been vandalised twice to the detriment of users.
Agerzua said although the pump of the water project has been safeguarded at the moment to guarantee its safety there was the need for a round the clock protection of the facility to forestall a repeat of the past. peat of the past. The Kindred Head, Chief Mvaaorga Ubo, who expressed appreciation to Agerzua for the rehabilitation, also commended Governor Ortom for constructing a new three classroom block at the school and providing it with desks. In Lessel, Agerzua handed over a new motorised borehole in his residence to the Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Aondohemba Kosu, in the township ward with a charge that benefi ciaries should protect and take good care.
A youth in Lessel North East, Mr. Ornguga Tyoyima, expressed happiness that such a project has been brought to his doorsteps and pledged to mobilise youths to protect it. Project coordinator, Mr. Orduen Aernan, alias Okroman, disclosed that Agerzua had drilled three new motorised boreholes and rehabilitated five hand-pump ones at Akerior market, Hundagar, Dinyam, and Tyozua in Utange council ward, as well as Orban in Lessel Township. He said the sponsor had also stepped down electricity at the LGEA Primary School, Akerior, to power the borehole and bought electricity generators even as he provided funds for fuel to pump water for regular supply to beneficiaries free of charge. All the speakers commended Governor Ortom for elevating
