The Enugu State Government says it would provide electricity to the few remaining communities in the state before the end of the administration in May 2015.

The State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime stated this in an address at a workshop on community administration organized for councilors, Town Union Presidents and other stakeholders in the state at the Nike Lake Resort Hotels.

Governor Chime, who was represented by the Chief of Staff, Government House Enugu, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo restated the administration’s commitment to providing the people with the essential amenities that would help make life better for them.

He noted that the workshop was organized to enable government know the position of the distribution of social amenities to communities in the state with a view to addressing any imbalance.

According to the governor, although government had done much in the provision of social amenities to the people, there were still needs for improvement.

He said that the State government was interested in the reconstruction of rural roads to help convey food production in the rural areas to the urban areas and emphasized that his administration would continue to pay attention to accountability and probity in government business.

The Governor commended the State Ministry of Rural Development, the organizer of the workshop, which he described as successful and expressed hope that the outcome of the exercise would help government re-strategize as participant are people that have direct contact with the rural development.

Earlier in an address, the State Commissioner for Rural Development, Dr. Eric Oluedo said that the workshop was intended to restore good governance in the rural communities in the state.

He noted that in Enugu State, every community was mandated to have a Town Union, with a President, adding that
there should be no parallel town unions, as witnessed in many communities in the State.

Oluedo noted that the workshop would also help to reduce crisis and conflicts in many communities arising from power tussle due to the inability of the leaders to carry all the stakeholders along in the execution of community project.

He recalled that on assumption of office, the administration of Governor Chime constituted a Committee known as Visit Every Community, (VEC), which was saddled with the responsibility of meeting with the communities to ascertain the need of the people.

He noted that government based its rural development on VEC reports, adding that VEC initiative of the Governor had led to the rapid development of the rural communities in the State.

According to the Commissioner, emphasis in future projects would be on community focused project.

He assured that projects would not be done in communities without the knowledge of stakeholders to ensure completion.