Inspection Tour: ACReSAL strengthens ties with Chede community, pledges more partnership
Daniel Mtindiga, Jalingo.
In a bid to ensure the full implementation and sustainability of it’s community driven impact Projects, the ACReSAL Team alongside Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Teams today, paid courtesy call on Kam Chiefdom in Garba Chede Community of Bali Local Government Area Taraba State.
The courtesy call/ community engagement meeting aimed at strengthening ties between ACReSAL Project and the Garba Chede Community for more impactful partnership.
Remarking during the engagement Meeting, the ACReSAL State Project Coordinator Dr Yakubu Clement Giwa commended HRH Chief Maigandi Manu Kaigama and his community for their collaboration.
He further reiterated ACReSAL’s commitment in delivering on its core mandate of addressing Climate challenges and empowering communities/individuals in the State through the support of the State Government under the visionary Leadership of His Excellency, Dr Agbu Kefas.
“I bring you greetings from His Excellency, Dr Agbu Kefas and also the 3 line Commissioners. We are here today to inspect some of our investments and also inform you that whatever we invest here belong to you and us therefore, it’s important to do follow up to see that the investment function well.
“We are equally here to strengthen ties with your community and assure you of our commitment for more impactful partnership,” he stated.
In his remark, Mr Cyril Bikom of the Federal Project Management Unit said they have joined hands with the federal Government and Taraba State in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),to invest in Taraba.
He noted that the federal government is concerned in giving investments where there is food security and also in places that need sustainability in that manner, emphasizing that all that would not be achieved without the support of the community.
He however, stressed on the critical role of the Monarch especially in information dissemination and community mobilization, urging him to secure the site and equally sensitize his subjects to embrace the project and work towards it’s sustainability.
Also speaking, the FAO Team Lead, Engr Precious Agbesor, commended Chief Kaigama for being receptive to ACReSAL Project while stressing on the his role in ensuring the full implementation and sustainability of ACReSAL’s infrastructure and tree planting projects in his community.
On his part, the Chief of Kam Chiefdom in Bali LGA of Taraba State HRH Alhj. Maigandi Manu Kaigama, appreciated the Teams and further reaffirmed his community’s unwavering commitment to support and work for sustainability of the project.
He maintained that the en-marked afforestation site in Ishwa community under his Chiefdom measuring over four thousand (4,000) hectares is a Government reserved area emphasizing that no community member has right to claim ownership of the area or disrupt the project’s activities.