The Edo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Kasim Afegbua on Wednesday highlighted achievements by the Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebolo in the last one and half years.
Afegbua, who was speaking to journalists in Benin City, Edo State said the government has done so much in education , infrastructure development, employment , security , road construction and maintenance.
He noted that Okpehbolo has employed a total of 6,000 teachers , 1,000 health workers, while plans are underway to recruit more teachers to further strengthen the education sector.
According to the commissioner, while building and equipping primary health care centres across the state, the government is also ensuring that secondary health care centres too are in good shape to take care of urban dwellers.
Afegbua said: “We are also ensuring that specialist and general hospitals are also well equipped to take care of the health needs of our people in the urban areas.
Further speaking on the state government scorecard, Afegbua said: “Across the 18 local governments, we are doing one project or the other. Schools repaired, provision of chairs and tables, road construction, ecological intervention, and so many other things.
“Only
recently, the governor handed over to the 18 local governments equipment, earth-moving equipment that will help them in the area of opening of rural roads and ensuring that there is mobility of goods and services from the very remotest part of the villages to urban areas where demand for goods and services are mostly high.”On the primary health care centres built so far, the Commissioner said: “We have also equipped a large chunk of those primary health care centres to provide immediate health services to people in rural areas who are in need of those kinds of interventions before seeking secondary attention to health care needs and services.”
“We have employed over 6,000 teachers , 1000 health workers and planning to employ more than 1,000 to enhance teaching.”
Continuing, he said.
“Now, we have also put in one billion Naira into the bursary commission headed by the former chairman of Esako Central Local Government, and in no time, students of Edo State descent will be receiving bursary awards in their different universities once the database is fully established.
“The governor also gave one billion Naira interest-free loan to market women, to boost their daily enterprise and help them to sit on proper footing with respect to their businesses.”
