A long, black snake uncurled from the corner of the room where it had been nesting undisturbed.
). An NDDC document made available to PREMIUM TIMES CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM shows that a completed primary health centre should have been erected as of December 10, 2004.The structure, still in its skeletal form 19 years after it ought to have been completed, is the only medical facility in the community with about 10,000 residents.“We have tried to make sure the health centre is completed. The Eze also intervened.
The NDDC has received about N1.534 trillion since its inception in 2001. The money is largely meant for infrastructural and development projects in the oil producing states. Jesse Ajaonu, the spokesperson of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, said many of the Brought -In- Dead cases in the hospital are due to inadequate health facilities in rural communities.
“I renovated everything; I put the ceilings, some of the tiles and the toilets. I put them in place. There was no hospital here at all. I cleared the bush with N150,000. It was later I heard that it was NDDC that built the place for hospital, but after 15 years, it was not used.”Okwudor is a community in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. Situated on the bank of Njaba River, the river separates the community from Umuaka.
“The building was completed in 2008 and since then, there was no staff or equipment.” Henry Okara, another resident told this reporter.
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