Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The governor presented the cheque at the flag-off of the 2012 and 2013 Millennium Development Goals Conditional Grants Scheme to State and Local Governments at the Women Development Centre, Awka on Monday.
The programme is a collaboration between the State and the Federal Government.
Fourteen local government areas selected from the three senatorial zones are benefiting in this phase of the scheme, with each receiving at least two hundred million naira and over three thousand projects are to be executed.
Schools of Nursing, Midwifery and Laboratory Technology as well as Hospital will also receive various forms of interventions.
Governor Obi expressed gratitude to President Goodluck Jonathan for the continual presence of the federal government in the State and South-East, as well as encouraging indigenous entrepreneurs, including Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company, Nnewi.
Governor Obi in his speech said fifteen 32-seater buses would be distributed to the schools of Nursing, Midwifery and Laboratory within the next two weeks, while hospitals would be equipped.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Jonathan on MDGs, Dr. Precious Gbeneol in hr address said the MDGs office decided to scale up intervention from six to fourteen local government areas because of the outstanding performance in the previous round as well as the timely provision of counterpart funds by the Govenror.
Dr. Precious Gbeneol commended the Governor for adopting the MDGs framework as the developmental policy thrust of his administration, noting that his commitment stood the state out as one of the states with the best rate of project implementation nationwide.
She went on to say that the projects would make positive impacts on many families on completion.
The Chairman, MDGs implementation Committee and Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Prof. Chinyere Okunna said the State was ahead of others in the implementation of MDGs.
