[OPINION]

By Joshua Ɗanmalam

The Gombe State Community and Social Development Agency (GCSDA) is a World Bank Assisted Project with active collaboration of the State Government who pays its counterpart fund to ensures formidable partnership in programme execution that adopts the Bottom-top approach in rendering services to communities who desire to have social amenities of their choice delivered to their doorsteps.

The agency’s guidelines also require a community desiring to have a project based on need assessment to remit 5 percent of the total project sum, while the agency provides the remaining 95 percent in addition to technical support.

While the project is yielding unimaginable results based on the commitment of the State Government under the leadership of Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya CON (Dan Majen Gombe), the GCSDA Program Manager Alhaji Haruna Ahmed Imam and the entire staff of the agency are working round the clock to ensure successful execution of the projects.

It is equally instructive to note that Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi a philanthropist per excellence is exceptionally utilizing the services of the agency’s peoples oriented projects to reach various communities.

The SSG has indeed taken it upon himself to advocate and support communities to take advantage of the projects to attract development into their localities thereby facilitating lots of projects that meet direct needs of the beneficiaries.Most of these projects initiated by the communities with the contribution of the SSG have since been completed in his local government area of Kaltungo.

Projects executed by the GCSDA in collaboration with various communities and Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi’s support include; the Maternity Clinic Lapandimtai and a hand pump borehole in Kaltungo East Ward, drilling of hand pump boreholes & matanity clinic at; Kaluwa, Layiro Poshesheng and Layiro Popandi. Construction and furnishing of maternity clinics and hand pump boreholes at Lakweme and Kije communities all in Kaltungo East Ward.

Other projects are; the construction and furnishing of classroom blocks and hand pump boreholes at Ture Berbere in Ture Ward, construction and furnishing of a maternity clinic and hand pumps’ boreholes at Dundaye in Awak Ward and another maternity clinics with hand pump boreholes at Garin-Korau.

These projects have all been completed and been put to use there by making lives much better for the benefiting communities especially in the areas of accessibility to water supply, healthcare delivery services and education.

For the communities who remitted their percentage according to G-CSDA guide lines, the SSG has been a great facilitator and also provided financial support towards the projects help in no small measure in the actualization and successful completion of the various projects mentioned.

No doubt, those projects by GCSDA are indeed complimentary to government efforts in bringing development closer to the people hence the need for the sustainability of this laudable developmental efforts by the World Bank and the Gombe State Government.

For the Philanthropic Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, your contribution in this modest endeavour has not gone unnoticed but deeply appreciated and documented in the lives and history of all benefitting communities.

This noble acts of yours is also a testament of your love for the common good of the people irrespective of tribe, faith or creed.It also demonstrated your believe in humanity anytime anywhere.

Joshua Ɗanmalam is the Information Officer, Office of the Secretary to Gombe State Government.