Jubilation as Anambra Govt Distributes Educational Materials to Schools in Remote Areas
By Praise Chinecherem
Anambra State government has distributed education items of different kinds to schools in Enugwu Otu community in Anambra East Local Government Area of the state.
The items were sourced from the Universal Basic Education Commission and some well meaning illustrious people of the area, in the spirit of Public Private Community Partnership program of the Government.
Speaking during the distribution which was also the launching of Enugwu Otu Education Development Program. (E.D.P.), Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh said the gesture was In line with Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s decision to make quality education accessible to the rural populace of the hard to reach areas in the state.
She charged the school children to avail themselves of opportunity provided by the education passionate Governor to better the future they represent.
“If the Enugwu Otu born Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka could excel educationally, the children of the hard to reach with this opportunity can do more.
“The Commissioner’s excellence earned him a position in the Executive Council, with which he has passionately represented the Enugwu Otu community,” she noted.
Prof. Chuma-Udeh appreciated the traditional ruler of Enugwu Otu community for garlvernizing the interest of the community towards this development venture in the spirit of Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s program of Public Private Community Partnership.
Chairman, Anambra Universal Basic Education Board, Prof. Vera Nwadinobi stated that it was in keeping with Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s directives that what is made available in urban schools must also be made available in hard to reach schools.
Responding, Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka, who was the Chairman on the occasion, eulogized the Governor for making the urban slum of Okpoko his first point of call on assumption of duty and being the first Governor that visited the hard to reach areas of Enugwu Otu and Olumbanasaa.
He encouraged the children to embrace hard work as a tool for success. “I was able to excel because I noticed that the same textbooks were read in urban schools and hard to reach schools”
Earlier in welcome address presented by the President General, the Enugwu Otu community appreciated Gov. Soludo for the great projects that would bring the community closer to the brink of an urban city.
He converted the Enugwu Otu boreholes to solar energy,, sited one of the Anambra general hospitals in the community and electrified Enugwu Otu. The community also thanked the Governor for appointing their illustrious sons Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka, Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Hon. Pius Machi and Hon Dominic Okagbue SSAs to the Governor on Media and Publiclty.
The high points of the event were the symbolic handover of the education items to the pupils, match past and declaration by traditional ruler of Enugwu Otu community, Igwe Emmanuel Igboanugo Ejiofo, the traditional ruling council, Ndi Ichie and Women leaders that every vote from the community must go to Governor Soludo who has created the enabling environment for the development of Enugwu Otu community.
