Managing Director, Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC), Prince Charles Orie, has said that the commission has recorded developmental projects in the three local government areas of Imo State which constitute ISOPADEC.
He said the commission was able to execute and commission some of these developmental projects because the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, funds the commission properly having believed in society development and human capacity building.
The ISOPADEC MD who spoke with journalists at his office in Owerri on Wednesday, noted that some dilapidated hospitals, health centers, roads, water boreholes and school structures are being rehabilitated and equipped with quality facilities, some completed and some are ongoing, saying the commission touches all communities of ISOPADEC with the intention to strengthen productivity, development and peace.
According to him, some of the completed projects include: construction and rehabilitation of health center with basic furniture at Umudike/Etekuru, Ohaji/Egbema, construction of health center at Oyioka, Ugada, Egbema West, completion of health center at Akiri community, Oguta, construction of water borehole with power generating set at Akiri.
Orie who urged the people to always protect these projects so that they benefit more from them, maintained that there are many scattered ongoing projects like construction of six classrooms block at Ozuh community primary school Omuma, Oru East, construction of six classrooms block at Okwuorji primary school, Awo- Omamma Oru East, remarking that these projects will soon be completed to boost productivity and development at the oil producing communities.