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GOVERNOR AKPABIO'S INTERVIEW: NOW AND BEYOND
The interview is not just about State Police. This man knows the essence of governance. He seems to be in full command of the political situation of his State and on how to move the State forward. This is not a politician that you could simply categorize as opportunist. He has vision, and the vision speaks volume.
GOVERNOR AKPABIO'S INTERVIEW: NOW AND BEYOND
The interview is not just about State Police. This man knows the essence of governance. He seems to be in full command of the political situation of his State and on how to move the State forward. This is not a politician that you could simply categorize as opportunist. He has vision, and the vision speaks volume.
"I declared free and compulsory education up to senior secondary school level and then I signed a bill into law to protect the rights of children and stop maltreatment of children in all facets; so looking back five years after and looking back four years at that policy, I feel very gratified that today we have tripled school enrolment in Akwa Ibom State and then I was also mindful of the need of other Nigerians so I felt if you educate your children and you don’t educate your neighbour’s you are preparing armed robbers to attack your graduate children so I declared the free and compulsory education open to all Nigerian children who are resident in Akwa Ibom; so today we have more than triple school enrolment. The schools are bursting, the facilities are stretched, we had to employ more teachers and all that but I am very satisfied that the response has been tremendous."
“We changed the configuration of road construction and we insisted that we shouldn’t do political roads where you put laterite over black soil and then put asphalt and six months later the road starts smiling which was the situation that we found in many parts of the Niger Delta so today there is no single road we did even way back in 2007 2008, none has a single pothole because we made sure the construction was near perfect and then we brought in first class construction companies to assist.”
It is one thing to have the money; it is another thing to know how to spend it. That was the sad situation of Edo State during the eight years that Mr. Lucky Igbinedion was the Governor of the State. No one can say for sure what he did with our money. This Governor is making a tremendous stride and we recognize that.
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