9 January 2009
Cross River State Community-based Poverty Reduction Agency has executed 360 projects worth more than N1.5billion since its establishment in 2001.
General Manager of the Agency, Pastor Victor Ovat, who made the announcement in Calabar, said the projects were executed and commissioned in at least 290 communities.
According to Ovat, the agency commissioned over 30 community poverty reduction projects in the Northern Senatorial Zone of the state and listed the projects to include classrooms blocks, health centres water schemes, and civic centres in Yala, Bekwarra, Obudu, Obanliku, and Ogoja local government areas that make up the senatorial zone.
He said 16 similar projects were executed in Etung, Ikom, Yakurr, Abi local government areas in the Central Senatorial districts of the state.
Ovat said the southern senatorial districts covering Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Akpabuyo, Biase, Akamkpa and Odukpani also benefited from the projects, adding that the projects were executed through the participatory demand driven approach adopted by the Agency.
At the commissioning of the last set of projects in the central senatorial district recently, the state Governor, Liyel lmoke, represented by Commissioner for Social development, Mrs Edak Iwuchukwu, said the state will continue to partner with the agency to improve the lot of people at the grassroots.
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