Ebonyi has already positioned as a reference-State in infrastructural development, enthuses Governor Umahi, as Ebonyi State, southeast of Nigeria, marks 25 years of its existence.
At an occasion organized to celebrate Ebonyi at 25, the governor said, “We are focused on building an economy driven by private sector, not government.
“We are deepening the tenets of democracy and the rule of law; we are leading by example in our fight against corruption and waste. We are restructuring the public service and body politic to ensure efficiency and good governance. We are committed to the goal of national integration.
“We have done quite a lot to transform the psyche and social stratum of our people through different human capital development programmes.”
“We are satisfied that at 25, Ebonyi State has been made a reference point in terms of network of solid roads, including our ongoing ring road project with ancillary works which are meant to connect 8-Local Government Areas.
“We have reactivated the state Government’s rice milling plants and installed the parboiling plants to make Ebonyi a State with the biggest rice milling plant in Nigeria.
“We have a brand new University of Medical Sciences which shall be a centre of excellence for the treatment of terminal diseases and we have plans to start the construction of the University of Aeronautical Engineering and University of Science and technology.
“We have a virology centre that contains with the menace of lassa fever, the only one in the South East.”
He announced that in January 2022, “Ebonyi shall be recruiting 5,000 people into the workforce and shall be empowering 3,000 youths and women to go into different businesses.”
