Rivers
Barasua Hails .1m Books Donation For Schools, Inspects Projects In Bonny
The Chairman of Bonny Local Government Area, Dame Anengi Barasua, has commended the donation of 100,000-books to schools in the area by Evomec Global Services Limited (EGSL), describing the company as an exceptional organisation that cares about its host community, stressing that companies who uphold the interest of Bonny people would continue to enjoy the collaboration of the local government authority.
Barasua, who was represented by the Vice Chairman of Bonny Local Government Council, Wariopusenibo Omoni Long John, at a brief handover ceremony at EGSL Operational Base, Bonny, last Friday, further encouraged the donor and staff members not to relent in their goodwill and services.
The LG chairman said that “there are companies on the Island that have more than EGSL and do less Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), but Evomec has remained committed to community welfare.”
She added that the donation was in line with her vision of capacity building, adding that the books would be enough to distribute across the villages and towns of Bonny Local Government Area.
Earlier, the Project Manager of EGSL, Mr Toye Fadare, who represented the company’s management, said they had been blessed by Bonny Local Government, saying that the donation was necessary to reciprocate the benefits on the island.
He said the idea of the 100,000-book donation which has just been implemented for the second time, was to alleviate the educational needs in Bonny, noting that the gesture was the little out of the many that was being planned for its host community.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Bonny Local Government, Dame Anengi Barasua, has embarked on on-the-spot inspection tour of select government facilities in the area.
At the Bonny Heritage Centre, Barasua discovered the presence of a Pentecostal Church, and directed for an immediate meeting afterwards to understand their terms of occupancy.
While inspecting the Bonny Cottage Hospital, she discovered illegal occupants, and frowned at the abuse of government property, directing relocation as well as other remedial actions.
She also inspected the compliance to the sanitation effort started off in December, 2021, at the Bonny Coal Beach, where she found pockets of defaulters, and warned them to desist from the indiscriminate hawking, illegal structures and defacing of the area.
At the Abattoir, where fresh fish merchants now stay to do their business, the chairman commended the traders for complying with the government directive to keep the area clean, and donated some cash token to support their business.
Also at the Bonny LGA ICT Centre, Barasua observed with dismay how facilities, including computers, desks and other items had been looted and the environment left in disarray.
She expressed readiness to rehabilitate the centre with a regulation framework to avoid a repeat of the abuse.
By: Nelson Chukwudi
The Rivers state Chief Judge, Justice SIMONE CHIBUZOR-AMADI has given an indication to sanction any lawyer who fail to comply with directive of a judge in the state to transferred a case to Rivers State Multi Door Courthouse for Alternatives Dispute Resolution.
Justice AMADI stated this during a brief ceremony held at the chief judge auditorium in port Harcourt Friday held to hand over certificates of operation to two private ADR chambers on Precarious Dispute Resolution Services and Harmony Arbitration and mediation center .
He urged the two private ADR centres to be diligent in the discharge of their duties and warned against compromising the standard of Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR but should observed the regulations set out in collaboration regulation by the state Multi Door Court House.
Earlier in a address, the Director of the State Multi Door Courthouse, VICTOR NWEKE esq, highlighted some of the achievements of the Multi Door Courthouse especially in decongestion of court rooms.
NWEKE while disclosing how the department certified the two private ADR centres called for serious punitive measures be taken against any lawyer who fail to comply with a case referred to Multi Door Court House by a judge or magistrates in the state.
In her acceptance speech on behalf of the two certified private ADR centres, ALICE NIMI commended the State Judiciary and Multi Door Courthouse for the approval and assured that all the rules and regulations spelt out will be followed.
In a related development; the Rivers State Judiciary has assured its readiness to collaborate with Nigerian Securityding Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC in using Alternative Dispute Resolution to resolve some of the issues in their office.
The state Chief Judge , Justice SIMONE CHIBUZOR-AMADI made the promise when he received in audience the Zonal Commander of NSCDC, Assistant Commandant General, AYINLA TALYE OLOWO and his team who paid him a courtesy visit in his office , Friday where issuees ADR utilization took centre stage.
He used the opportunity to brief his visitors on the hurdles judges faces daily in the court room and the need for the decongestion of the court room , stressing that one judge handle more than three hundred cases but that if lawyers and litigants adopt ADR practice court rooms can be releive of the daily congestions.
The state Chief Judge however urged NSCDC to ensure a wider sensitization of the members of the public on the practice of ADR for a better awareness and knowledge.
Earlier in his speech, the Zonal Commander of NSCDC, Assistant Commandant General, AYINLA TALYE-OLOWO said the visit was to seek collaboration on the use of ADR in resolving some issues which he insisted would help decongest the courtrooms.
Our correspondent reports officials of the Rivers State Multi Door Courthouse led by the Director, VICTOR NWEKE led the team of NSCDC on a technical session where information on how to the fully in cooperated into the Multi Door Courthouse and operation of ADR will be emphasized.
Akujobi Amadi