Delta Assembly approves N600 million loan for Gov. Okowa

Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved the request of the State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for a N600 million term loan facility from Fidelity Bank Plc.

This, according to the governor’s aide who made this known, is to enable the State government meet its 50% counterpart contribution required to access the 2017 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) counterpart fund from the federal government.

The request letter from the governor was read by Speaker Sheriff Oborevwori Tuesday’s plenary, and was approved after a debate of it by lawmakers.

Earlier, Okowa has interfaced with the people of Warri North and South council areas in continuation of his town hall meeting programme designed to help his government’s planning process especially in area of budgeting.

Addressing issues raised by various communities, Governor Okowa at the town hall meetings in Warri and Koko said his government is collaborating with relevant authorities to facilitate the dredging of Warri and Koko ports.

While in Warri south, the attention of Governor Okowa was drawn to the abandoned Ugborodo new town housing unit, abandoned water project started by the Ibori administration, inadequate funding for DESOPADEC and the construction of network of bridges linking communities to Warri.

The governor promised to give attention to the projects.

In Warri North, the people asked for the completion of abandoned Koko stadium, rehabilitation and upgrade of Koko hospital, the understaffing problem of Iwere college, and the absence of government project in Egbema community.

Governor Okowa in his response promised to take care of virtually all the issues raised and investigate the dormancy of Koko Water project, as well as the complaint of mismanagement of sand dredging machine procured by the council area during former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s tenure.