By – Memoye Oghu (Port Harcourt)
A call has been made to the Federal Government and Donor Agencies to consider Rivers State as a special case in allocating intervention funds.
Rivers State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr Roseline Apawari Uranta made the call when a delegation of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja Cares Coordinating Programme paid her a courtesy visit in her office in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
“Your visit, I am informed is based on the fact that the State Care Coordinating Unit is doing well in service deliverly, hence our State is visited”, the Commissioner said, adding that the State Government under the able leadership of Sir Siminalayi Fubara “is committed to the welfare need of our people and is shown in his first 100 days in office”.
The Commissioner commended those behind the establishment of the Covid 19 Economic Recovery Stimulus in all the States of the Federation, which according to her had reduced proverty level to an extent. “We’ll continue to have an increase of the people living below the poverty level; the present administration will do all within its power to change the narratives for good”.
In her speech, the State Technical Head of the Cares Coordinating Unit, Mrs Imaonyari Ephraim-George thanked the Commissioner for receiving the delegation within a very short notice.
Mrs Ephraim -George said that among the comity of States, Rivers State had performed creditably well and “I am not surprised the FCT Office picked the State”.
She said the Ministry of Women Affairs being a major partner of the Project housed three delivery units, which include the Livelihood Grant, the Social Transfer and the Road Maintence.
Speaking later, Leader of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja Cares Coordinating Unit, Mr Uba A. Bala explained that they were in the State to understudy the operations of the State Unit with a view to improving their office in Abuja.
