Ndoma Egba
Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar
Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba Wednesday offered some solutions to communal conflicts saying such crisis could largely be resolved by taking development to the people.
He gave the advice in an interview with journalists at the flag off of his constituency visit to Cross River Central Senatorial District.
Our correspondent reports Ndoma-Egba also stated that he embarked on the visit of projects in six local government areas in his constituency to inspect some multimillion Naira projects facilitated by him.
He said that some of the projects facilitated by him were being funded by the Federal Government.
“ I think that one of the best ways to resolve this issue (communal clashes) is to take development to those communities and its people believing that when they begin to see substantial development and improvements, their lives will have more meaning.
“They will be less prone to wasting lives that can be enjoyed. Push more development to the rural areas hoping that such will engender peace,’’ the senate leader said.
He also stated why he is bringing development projects to his constituents: “When we intervene in water it is essentially to address the water needs of the people and also to address their health concerns because a healthy community is a productive community.
“That is one of the reasons why we I have intervened massively in health. We have also intervened in education sector; we have a lot of interventions in schools. We also have environmental projects.
“My constituency is prone to environmental hazards, especially flooding, erosion and you will see quite a number of projects trying to control the menace of erosion.
“Most of them are constituency projects; they are funded by the federal government’s budget but facilitated by me. They are quite many.
“ I have intervened in the health sector; the Specialist Hospital in Ikom is under construction as well as the Enugu-Abakaliki-Ikom Road and I think that there are quite a lot of excitements by beneficiaries of these interventions”, he said.
The senator also stated that it is necessary to redefine empowerment and political representation to add value to peoples’ lives.
“Representation is not only about giving people a voice but also about adding value to their lives, improvements of their welfare and livelihood. Through these we are trying to change the paradigm of representation,’’ he said.
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