From PreciousWerner Ahiakwo, Port Harcourt
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The Egi People’s Assembly in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local government area of Rivers State has inaugurated the Egi Strategy Team and Boards of Egi City Development Initiative and Trust Fund to foster development and entrepreneurship in the Egi clan.
The development imperatives of the three platforms inaugurated are to focused on economic development projects and programmes that will empower and create employment and wealth to the Egi people, motivate each community in the clan to embark on community development plan that has short, medium and long term goals and deliverables and the immediate adoption and implementation of a community budgeting framework to guide development planning instead of craving for sharing of the money.
Inaugurating the teams, the President General of the Egi People’s Assembly, Chief Oris Onyiri expressed confidence in them and the teams to work with institutions in the clan in order to realize the Egi development plans, “äny group or sector concerned with the developments in Egi will support us. We’ll assist the team within our limits. Looking at you, no part of this world any of you’ll go to represent the Egi people and will have doubt, we believe that you have the capacity n capability to do service that will b remembered forever”, he said.
Also in an address by the Chairman of the event, an educationist and elder statesman of Egi clan, Elder I.O Izeogu who described leadership as service and sacrifice also urged the inaugurated teams to be transparent and diligent in their services to the Egi people, “if you fail to deliver and decide not to be truthful, there’ll be problem because lies cannot continue for too long. When the morning breaks and the truth comes out, the liar will be running helter skelter. So it’s good to say the truth as it is, by doing that you have been transformed into the likeness of good citizenship. Leadership is not to force someone to submission, it’s for general welfare of the people, its sacrifice and service” he said.
In an acceptance speech by the Chairman of the inaugurated team and Board of Trustees, Pastor Nonye Nwokomah, described the call to serve as a challenge to give back to the Egi people. He called on the Egi people to play a role that will encourage and make the job easier for the teams to deliever the projects in a short time adding that the EPA has shown an exemplary way to love and be loyal to one another in the clan.
The plenary session of the event saw the delivery of keynote address on “Developing Egi City through the spirit of entrepreneurship” by the President of Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture PHCCIMA, Engr. Emeka Unachukwu, “The Idea and Practise of Community Trust Funds”by Chizor Wisdom Dike (DNRS) and “The Idea and Practise of Egi City Development Initiatives and Programmes by Chika Emeh (CREDO).
