“Soludo’s Educational Reforms: A Formidable Investment” – Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Deputy Governor, Anambra.
By Udoka Nwokoye Hoffmann
Anambra State Deputy Governor, Dr OnyekaChukwu Ibezim, has described his principal, Prof Charles Chukwuma Solduo, as a reformer, embarking on structural reformation of the education sector.
Dr. Ibezim was speaking in Agulu, Aniocha Council Area of Anambra State, where he represented the Governor at the burial ceremony of Pa Alexander Ejesieme who died at age 93.
The Deputy Governor applauded the legacies Pa Ejesieme left behind and reminded his children, Bar Alex Ejesieme SAN, and his siblings of the great work ahead.
He reeled out Governor Soludo’s step by step approach, aimed at making quality education, accessible and affordable to all and sundry in the state.
According to Dr. Ibezim, Gov. Soludo has demonstrated these in practical terms, by first of all, presenting One Billion, Six Hundred Million Naira to Mission Schools in the state, with Catholic Mission schools receiving the sum N918,000,000, Anglican Mission Schools, N550,000,000 and N16,000,000 to Salvation Army mission schools.
The Deputy Governor said, “Under Soludo’s administration, education is a critical components 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 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 primary schools and where they cannot sponsor a primary school, they should buy them a pencil, citing Amorji Primary School, Isuofia, Soludo’s hometown as example, which Gov. Soludo adopted over 12 years ago till today”
“I can assure you that under this administration, education will be a ladder of opportunity for all and sundry irrespective of class or strata”
At the cheering of the crowd, Dr. Ibezim also revealed that his principal will also recruit another 3000 teachers particularly for the puplic schools, after 5000 had already been employed, insisting that all these are purely Soludo’s brainchild to revamp the education sector.
