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Members of the Delta State House of Assembly representing 
Ughelli South Constituency, Hon Reuben Izeze, is bewildered that Primary
 School pupils at  Omosuomo and Ekameta, two  riverside communities in 
his area,  still sit on bare floor to study without desks.Hon Izeze, who undertook a tour of the communities to appraise their 
needs, said what he observed during the visit staggered him.

My devastating experience

His words, “My most traumatizing experience  was when I saw kids 
learning in classrooms with no desks and sitting on bare floor at 
Omosuomo and Ekameta communities, I wept.” “About 17 communities (Ewu) 
are riverine with no access roads, electricity or healthcare facilities.He said,  “From what I saw in the course of my tour of the 69 
communities that make up my constituency, I can confirm to you that 
Ughelli South is indeed one of the most backward local government areas 
in Delta state in terms of infrastructural development.” 
 27 other communities in the upland area (Ughievwen) are littered with 
abandoned/uncompleted road projects and poor education facilities,” he 
asserted.Hon Izeze added, “Also at Otitiri/Iwhre-Ogun, a part of the community
 had been completely submerged by coastal erosion and clearly, it  has 
gone extinct.” He bemoaned: “To get to some of the riverside Ewu 
communities in my constituency, which is Ughelli South, you have to pass
 other local government areas, Burutu and Bomadi, this is irritating as 
it is burdensome to my people.”“I also found that there are major communities in the Jeremi area 
that are not accessible during the rains because of lack of roads and 
bridges. This is besides the decay in infrastructure and dearth of 
personnel in the basic education sector,” he further lamented.

Laughable facilities

The lawmaker said there was lack of primary health providers in most 
of the communities he visited and inadequacy of equipment and staff  in 
the few existing Primary Health Centres, PHCS, pointing out that only 
one inadequately equipped and staffed General Hospital cannot serve the 
entire constituency.He said that practically all the existing water schemes in the local 
government were not functional, while government have not connected the 
 riverside communities, also threatened by coastal erosion,  to the 
national grid.

Compendium of findings

The worried Hon Izeze, however,  said, “We have been able to prepare a
 compendium of all our findings and gotten experts to cost the 
challenges we identified. It is our intention to present this to the 
present government of the state with a view to getting these issues 
addressed as the finances of the state improve.”“Also we intend to reach out to other states and federal intervention
 agencies with some of these challenges in our bid to use a 
multi-dimensional approach to solving the developmental needs of our 
people. “Non-governmental Organizations, NGOS and private sector 
operators will also not be left out as we seek to address these litanies
 of challenges as we believe that government alone cannot do it all,” he
 asserted.

Premeditated goals

He said that part of our strategic objectives is to effectively 
connect all communities in the local government to the national grid by 
2019, provide 16 transformers for 13 communities, complete ongoing 
electricity projects in Gbaregolor and extension to five other 
communities, as well as provide approximately 350 solar streetlights in 
23 communities.Izeze  is advocating provision of equipment  for the 30 existing 
primary health care centres in the local government, upgrade of general 
hospital, Otu-Jeremi; back-up of Ewu cottage hospital to a general 
hospital; rehabilitation of Oginibo PHC; completion/equipping of four 
PHCS; new cottage hospitals at Ovwor and Ofrukama; and floating 
hospitals to serve the riverine communities.He also said the existing water schemes in 29 ommunities across the 
local government should be rehabilitated, new water schemes provided in 
three communities, as well as rehabilitation and equipping of 17 
existing primary schools in the constituency.His list of requests also include establishment of four new secondary
 schools, Technical College at Agbon,  construction and equipping of 
DESOMATEC campus at Gbaregolor, tertiary institution in the area, 
construction of foreshore walls and embankment  in five communities, 
dredging of two major rivers, construction of culverts in four 
communities among others.