By Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State says that his administration’s policy in the education sector is yielding positive results.
The governor in a live interactive radio programme disclosed that his administration has built over 400 modern classrooms and 4 modern schools.
According to him, teachers in the state have undergone training and retraining which have produced successes in both local and national competitions.
He continued: “To put the icing on the cake, this government is sending 50 Abia youths to overseas on scholarship.
“Majority of these number have gotten their Visas and their school fees paid in both Australia and India”.
Ikpeazu also assured that the engineering faculty in Aba and pharmacy department in the state university located at Uturu will move in fully in Aba within the year adding, “we can easily understand the impacts there are going to bring to Aba”.
“We have completed over 15 buildings there and Abians will begin to see the beauty and how we are connecting the dots to achieve greater results,” he said.
The governor also revealed that what moved his administration into rebuilding two major markets in Aba was the challenge posed by street trading.
“We also encountered a challenge whereby people were beginning to trade on the streets thereby blocking major roads, we understand some of these issues and that’s why we started rebuilding Ngwa road and we shall also rebuild Ariaria and Eziukwu”.
“My promise is that no existing shop owner will pay extra fee to retain his /shop and no one will lose his shop. To compensate them for their patience, I will give some fund to the traders”.
“We are only doing the right thing by making sure those markets are rebuilt and they will add beauty and compliment what we are doing in road infrastructure.
“Our intervention in Osusu and Omuma will improve trading in those markets. We have completed Osusu with cement technology, we are also doing same at Omuma road, all these areas connect to Ariaria and other major economic centers,” he explained.
