BY PETER OKUTU
ABAKALIKI—Ebonyi State Government, Wednesday, warned contractors handling Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, projects in communities across the state to desist from abandoning them for unjustifiable reasons.

Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Mr. Timothy Odaa, gave the warning during the inauguration of the eight-man committee set up to manage MDG health centres in some communities in Ohaozara Local Government Areas of the state.

He emphasized that government would not tolerate the attitude of any contractors who delights only in getting contracts awarded to them without the corresponding enthusiasm to ensure their speedy completion.

Odaa stated that government was committed to ensuring that communities in the state benefitted immensely from all the projects lined up by MDGs, adding that early completion of the health centres would enable government to realise its target of providing access to qualitative health care services to the people of the state.

He charged the committee members to abide by the terms guiding their constitution adding that government would work closely with them to ensure the efficiency and standardization of Health centres in the area.

In her remarks, the Millennium Development Goals and Conditional Grant Scheme Focal person in Ebonyi State, Mrs. Ngozi Obichukwu, called on rural dwellers to desist from patronising unqualified health personnels in their areas. She urged them to take advantage of the health facilities provided by the MDGs to improve on the state of their health.

state. Mrs. Obichukwu noted that Ebonyi state government had invested huge funds in the Millennium Development Goals Health projects and enjoined members of the Community Management Committees to carry out their assignment diligently without.

In his acceptance speech, Chairman of the Committee, Mr Uche Odii pledged the preparedness of his members towards the protection of the Health Centres from vandals adding that the advent of the MDGs in the communities remained a welcome development.