By Anthony Ojo.
Benefiting communities under the Ekiti State Community and Social Development Agency, EKCSDA have called on the agency to facilitate more projects to their respective areas.
They made the call during an assessment visit of the Chairman, Board of Directors of EKCSDA, Chief Biodun Akin-Fasae to projects sponsored by the agency in some communities in the state.
The visit took the EKCSDA Chairman to Ado, Adunogbon in Ikere, Ofigba-Ise, Temidire-Ise, Ibeji shittu-Emure, Ayegbaju-Ekiti, Isan, Iye, Ilowu-Igogo, Isaoye, Ayegunle in Ijero local government, Ilawe and Ikogosi-Ekiti among others.
In the places visited, representatives of the communities, including Mr. Ayo Bamigboye of Covenant Community, Ado-Ekiti and Mr. Joseph Ayeni from Ipoti-Ekiti said their communities were still in need of some basic amenities to ease their standard of living.
Messrs Bamigboye and AYENI appealed to the agency and Governor Kayode Fayemi not to rest on their oars at prioritising the development of the rural areas.
Also speaking, the Olupoti of Ipoti-Ekiti, Oba Oladipupo Kolade and Mr. Ayodeji Ojuawo of Temidire, Ise-Ekiti posited that the projects in their domains had impacted positively on their social and economic lives.
They appreciated the state government and EKCSDA for bringing infrastructural development to their doorsteps.
The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Ekiti State Community and Social Development Agency, EKCSDA, Chief Biodun Akin-Fasae said over six hundred projects had been carried out by the agency across the state, saying new ones would soon commence.
Chief Akin-Fasae however urged the benefiting communities to complete all projects under construction within the specified period, calling on them to also imbibe maintenance culture to ensure their durability.
Some of the projects inspected include motorised boreholes, community halls, civic and ICT centres, corpers lodges, lock-up shops, open stalls, construction of bridges and culverts, among others.
