FIC Report (Enugu State) – Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has said his administration is currently executing over 1,000 landmark projects across the state which would be completed in record time, in addition to the ongoing recruitment of 15,000 Smart school teachers and skilled workers into the state’s workforce.
He disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu during a brief chat with selected youth and media practitioners drawn from across the Southeast zone who paid him a courtesy visit to his office. He said 11,000 new Smart school teachers were undergoing recruitment and training process at the Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation in the state.
Fielding questions from the youth on why his administration was in a haste to develop the state, the Governor said his leadership approach was borne out of a well-researched disruptive and innovative model that would radically change the trajectory of governance in the state.
He said the ongoing 260 Smart Green Schools in the state would redefine the way students learn and acquire knowledge that would help them compete with their peers in advanced countries, adding that the cut-off programme designed into the curriculum would introduce children at the age of 3 to new technologies and migrate them to digital learning process.
According to him, new smart teachers that would impact knowledge at the smart schools were undergoing training that would professionalise their career in the teaching service as well as equip them with the requisite knowledge to navigate the new curriculum where students would be taught artificial intelligence, mechatronics, robotics, creativity and innovation.
On the administration’s efforts in the health sector, the Governor said 260 Type-2 Primary Health Centres across the electoral wards were under construction with some of them already completed, adding that the state had recruited hundreds of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers to provide services across the board.
While underscoring the significant renovation and re-equipment efforts the state has made on existing hospitals to meet the needs of the people, Mbah pointed at the recent contract awarding the construction and completion of a 300-bed world-class hospital at Rangers Avenue, Enugu, aimed at making Enugu the hub of medical tourism in Nigeria.
He said the completion of the ongoing International Conference Centre, 5-Star Hotel, Presidential Hotel, operationalization of the international wing of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, and the transport infrastructure terminals at the Market Road, Ogbete, Gariki, Abakpa and Nsukka, which will all be delivered within specified timeline, will make the state the tourist and investor’s destination of choice.
Bonaventure Ngwu,
HOC, Enugu
