Peace Corps members embark on community services, dig water channel
Augustine Kuza, Lafia
The officers of Nigerian Peace Corps (NPC), Nasarawa state command has embarked on community services by digging water channel along Akwanga/Keffi road in order to make the road accessible by motorists during rainfall fall.
Mr. Bala Joshua, the commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps (NPC), Nasarawa state command made this known on Sunday in an interview with newsmen after the officers of the command digged the water channel in Sabon Gida, Kokona local government area of the state.
He has said that the Kokona local government officers of the command has decided to embarked on the community services by digging the water channel in Sabo Gida, along Keffi/Akwanga road in order to prevent accident by motorists due to the bad nature of the road in the area and for easy flow of water.
“The community services are part of our commitment of giving the society our support which is also incorporated in our bill that has just been passed by the national Assembly so as to make the environment clean and also to save lives dues to the nature of the road.
“Looking at the rate of accident that the pot hole and due to the nature of the road is causing, we felt that there is the need to clear accumulated sand as well as to dig water channel in this area for easy access by motorists in order to reduce the rate of accident in this area as a result of the accumulation of water along the road when there is heavy down pour,” he said.
Joshua has also disclosed that, he deployed his men and officers to assist in maintaining law and order during the Sept.30 sanitation in Akwanga local government area.
He said that the measures is to complement others security agent efforts in maintaining peace, law and order during the sanitation.
He has also has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign in to law the bill seeking to establish the organization in order to promote peaceful co-existence in the country.
He said that the bill if finally assented in to law by President Buhari would not only fight the high rate of unemployment in the country but would also help the corp to synergize with other security agencies across the country in the area of conflict resolution strategy.
“We believed, hope and have faith so much in President Buhari as a father that understand the plight of Nigeria youths,he is a man that listen to cry of Nigeria youths, we appeal to him to assent the Nigerian Peace Corps bill in to law considering its enormous benefit to the country,” he said.
He used the medium to task the men of the command to maintain standard and adhere strictly to its professional ethics in the interest of peace and National development.
