The deputy governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Dr. OnyekaChukwu Ibezim has described Governor Charles Soludo’s educational reforms as a formidable investment. He described his principal as a reformer for embarking on structural reformation of educational sector in the state.
Dr. Ibezim who spoke in Agulu, Aniocha council Area of Anambra State where he represented the Governor at the burial of Pa Alexander Ejesieme who died at the age 93, applauded Soludo’s legacies. While reminding the children of Pa Ejesieme, Mr. Alex Ejesieme, SAN and his siblings of the great works ahead, he reeled out the governor’s step by step approaches aimed at making quality education, accessible and affordable to all and sundry in the state.
According to Dr. Ibezim, Governor Soludo had demonstrated these in practical terms, by first of all donating over N1.6bn to heads of mission schools in the state , with Catholic Mission schools recieving the sum N918,000,000; Anglican mission Schools, N550,000,000 and N16,000,000 to Salvation Army mission schools.
He said, “Under Soludo’s administration, education is a critical component of his larger ‘solution agenda’ as obtained in his manifesto before Ndi Anambra proudly hired him about 18 months ago.
“Presently, Soludo’s government is making deliberate efforts towards making education an opportunity equalizer in the state by revamping the public schools which hitherto, were a learning ecosystem for the poorest of the poor.
“To achieve this, Governor Soludo is personally pushing several clubs of patrons in the state towards adopting a primary school and where they cannot sponsor a primary school, they should buy them pencil.”
He cited Amorji Primary School Isuofia, Soludo’s hometown as an example, which Gov. Soludo adopted over 12 years ago till today.
Continuing, he said, “I can assure you that under this administration, education will be a ladder of opportunity for all and sundry irrespective of class or strata.”
Dr. Ibezim also said that his principal would also recruit another 3000 teachers particularly for the public schools in the state, after 5000 had already been employed, insisting that all these are purely Soludo’s brainchild to revamp education in the state.
