By Oyibo Salihu
Chairman of Kogi local government area, in Kogi state, Ibrahim Labara, has described the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), initiated by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as “a huge success,” saying that rural dwellers were the ultimate beneficiaries.
Labara, who stated this in Koton-Karfi yesterday while conducting journalists who were in the area to inspect SURE-P projects executed by the council, maintained that several lives of rural dwellers had been touched positively by the intervention.
He noted that the provision of motorised boreholes, road rehabilitation and construction, youths and women empowerment among other projects were made possible with the fund accruing to his council from the SURE-P headquarters.
The chairman e further commended Governor Idris Wada forhis efficient handling of the programme in the state.
He promised to always make the welfare of staff of the council his top most priority, observing that the inability of councils to pay full salaries to the workers was occasioned by the dwindling resource from the Federation Account, and urged the workers to be patient.
Earlier, the chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi state council, Comrade Ali Atabor, who is also the leader of the delegation, said what the people wanted to see was value for their money, hence the need to execute quality jobs that could stand the test of time.
