By Motolani AbdulGafar
The Community Development Committee (CDC), Ejigbo LCDA has sworn in 10 new Ad Hoc Committee with their members to monitor the activities of the Community Development Associations (CDAs) in the next one year.
According to the CDC Chairman, Prince Jelili Atiku, the committees are inaugurated to collaborate and work with the Ejigbo LCDA departmental heads for easy assessment of the CDA activities within their various communities.
“Our responsibility as a body is not only to see to the affairs of our people in our own way, we can as well create different initiatives that would also help the government to reach out to the people at the grassroots.
“Our intention for establishing these committees is not just to have a figure head representative because we want them to be working as we expect that they all work with different departmental heads in Ejigbo LCDA. We expect a monthly report from the committees on any development in their respective areas. We believe this will bring the residents closer to the government,” he explained.
Atiku also noted that for appropriate monitoring of the committees, the committees would be headed by a member of the CDC leadership who is an expert in the field in question so that they can be easily accessible.
He said for instance, Agriculture committee would be in charge to discover the farmers, who could sell their farm produce at lower prices than the market prices to the residents and for them to patronise the local farmers.
He added that the health committee will partner with the Heads of Medicals (Council Vice Chairman, Dr. Olatunde Olusunmade, who is also the Supervisory Councillor for Health, and the Medical Officer of Health (MOH), Dr. Adewale Agosu, to from time to time sensitise the community on trending health issues in Nigeria and the world at large.
Atiku thereafter encouraged all CDAs to effortlessly transform their localities as the chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Hon. Monsurudeen Bello (Obe) has promised to award every working CDA l0 in April 2021 after he might have personally visited them all to examine their achievements.
Meanwhile, the Medical Officer of Health (MOH), Dr. Adewale Agosu, Director of Nursing Services, Mrs. Ihienosime Iyabode, and Director of Community Health, Mrs. Kelani Basirat, pleaded with CDAs to encourage residents to use primary healthcare centres within their communities, saying that their medical officers are well trained officials who are concerned about the well being of the residents.
They noted that Lagos State Government has provided a lot of free health care services to the communities but many of the centres are not patronised by residents.
