By Patrick Ochei
Stakeholders in Delta State have applauded the achievements of the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris carries out South-South Sensitization Campaign on Tinubu’s Administration’s Mid-Term Report.
In the Minister’s address which was read by the State Director of Information and National Orientation, Felix Ijomah at the Town Hall meeting at the Federal Secretariat complex, Asaba, Mr. Mohammed Idris reeled out a number of accomplishments of the President within two years of his administration.
While recalling same event last year, Mr. Idris drew strength from the fact that the policies of government had left the stage of interventions and reforms for growth in the first year, to actual successes already recorded in terms of physical development in the second year.
The Minister stated that the President had empowered over 900,000 beneficiaries with loans for SMEs while over 300,000 had benefitted from the students loan scheme, including over #500 million as disbursed to 1,797 farmers via Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises Project in Niger Delta (LIFE-ND).
Mr. Idris affirmed that in his quest for a working primary healthcare system, the President had released over #250 billion to States to revamp primary health centres across Nigeria as well as embarked on building of 8000 new primary health centres across 774 Local Government Areas, which is a critical effort aimed at making healthcare available and closer to the people at the grassroots.
Still basking in the acclaimed euphoria of a substantially recovered economy, the Minister alluded to the fact that over 440 roads are currently ongoing by this administration across Nigeria, including the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and many others.
The Town Hall meeting was chaired by a retired Pensions Administrator of the South-South Pensions Area Office in Asaba, Joe Asem, who encouraged civil servants to get productively engaged for their future, rather than entirely relying on a vague benefit from the civil service.
He said, Tinubu has done so much for the nation in a space of two years without owing anybody, thereby calling on Nigerians to instead, demand accountability from Governors for the volume of money they had received within this two years under review.
Meanwhile, the Guest Speaker and Immediate Past State Coordinator, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), John Onovroke dwelt exclusively on a paradigm shift towards agriculture, thereby urging civil servants to utilize the benefit of cooperative society more towards investing in agriculture.
While advocating for a clear-cut policy that exclusively supports agriculture, Onovroke who is also the Chairman of COHEADS posited that there can’t be national security without food security.
To get a holistic view on the subject of discourse, goodwill messages were extracted from heads of various MDAs present, including stakeholders from the audience and corps members.
