16 Kwara communities get N34m World Bank projects

By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab

Ilorin

Kwara State Community and Social Development Agency (KWCSDA) yesterday presented a cheque of N34 million to 16 community beneficiaries of the World Bank-assisted community development projects in Kwara state.
The 16 communities were spread across 8 local governments in Kwara North, Central and South, bringing the total number of benefiting communities to 104 in 2017.
Presenting the cheque to the beneficiaries, the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, represented by the Commissioner for Planning and Economic Development, Alhaji Wasiu Odewale, charged the communities to use the money for intended purpose.
Speaking with journalists at the ceremony, the acting General Manager KWCIDA , Alhaji Yahaya Ahmed said that the projects were carried out based on the choices of the communities in the areas of electricity, water, erosion control, education, health, environment and Natural resources, transport and socio-economic intervention activities.
He said the communities were selected based on the poverty map of the state ‘‘being the poorest in terms of infrastructure.”
Yahaya listed the local governments to include Edu, Moro and Kaiama from Kwara North, Ilorin West and Asa in Kwara Central and Offa, Oke-Ero and Isin in Kwara South.
He disclosed that a total of N83 million is to be disbursed for the projects out of which the first tranche of N34 million was disbursed yesterday.
He announced that the governor had also approved another N50 million two weeks ago to facilitate the second tranche disbursement.
“With this, we have been able to draw over N600 million from the World Bank and hoping that by 2018 we should be able to draw N800 million,” he said.

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