ENFORCE USE OF SAFETY HELMETS, UDUAGHAN TELLS FRSC, COMMISSIONS 114 KEKE NAPEP TRICYCLES GOVERNOR UDUAGHAN TEST-DRIVING ONE OF THE TRICYCLES, DURING THE COMMISSIONING. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged the Federal Road Safety Commission and the Police to enforce the use of safety helmets by motorcycle riders in the state. Governor Uduaghan who was speaking while commissioning one hundred and fourteen “KEKE NAPEP” tricycles to boost transportation system in the state explained that the tricycles are the first batch designed to empower Deltans and improve their living standard. “Please do not go and sell these tricycles, they are given to you as beneficiaries to empower yourselves and make money to buy more of the tricycles in subsequent schemes,” Governor Uduaghan told the beneficiaries. The governor further stated that the state micro credit scheme would be strengthened to empower more Deltans this year, just as he urged beneficiaries of KEKE NAPEP to use the tricycles for the purpose they were given. ‘It is an empowerment programme and not meant for other sundry things. Please them to carry passengers and generate money to buy more,” he said. The governor said the KEKE NAPEP is an advanced form of the motorcycle introduced to solve some of the problems associated with motorcycles, adding that less than 20% of Deltans use the safety helmet and a lot of people lose their lives through motorcycle accidents, adding that the Federal government introduced the safety helmet to safe guard lives and called on FRSC and the Police to enforce this law in the state. While thanking the Federal Government for initiating the KEKE NAPEP scheme, Dr. Uduaghan said a Delta name will be proposed to replace ‘KEKE’ which he said did not relate to any language in the state. Earlier, the State Coordinator of the National Poverty Eradication Programme, Mr. Austin Igbine, said the Keke scheme is designed to provide affordable, comfortable commercial transportation means for the people. Mr. Igbine explained that the tricycles will be used within the confines of urban areas to reduce the risk of accidents, adding that just like any other poverty reduction scheme embarked upon by NAPEP, this scheme is also aimed at breaking the inter-generational transfer of poverty through investment in human capital and creation if job opportunities.    Recent Events WHEN CHIEF GODSWILL OBIELUM, NDOKWA NATION HOSTED AND ENDORSED GOVERNOR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN FOR 2011, AT THE KWALE TOWNSHIP STADIUM, ON SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010. IMAGES FROM THE VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY, DR. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, PRESIDENT, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF NIGERIA FOR THE COMMISSIONING OF DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL, OGHARA AND HEADQUARTERS, NAVAL LOGISTICS COMMAND, OGHARA, D3 LAUNCH IN EUROPE: GOVERNOR EMMANUEL EWETA UDUAGHAN, GOVERNOR LED A DELEGATION OF OFFICIALS AND EMINENT DELTANS TO GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, TO LAUNCH THE EUROPEAN HUB OF THE DELTA DIASPORA DIRECT (D3) PROGRAMME ON MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010. IMAGES FROM THE MEMORIAL LECTURE AND FOUNDATION LAYING OF MARYAM BABANGIDA WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ASABA, HELD ON SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010. ASK THE GOVERNOR

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