Education
Do More On Education, Amaechi Tells Church
Governor Chibuike
Amaechi has called on the church to do more in boosting education in the state.
While launching the newly proposed Port Harcourt Diocesan Pastoral Centre at Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local government Area, the Governor said, “the church needs to do more on educational programmes of our children so they can have the education we had.”
While lamenting the dwindling standards of education, Amaechi said the situation informed his action as Speaker of the State Assembly to approve the handover of schools to churches.
He opined that the State Government cannot do all to drive the sector and sought for church support. “ Today the church has taken over our best old schools. We believe that the Catholic Church will provide good education.”
Promising to renovate some of the dilapidated schools, the governor assured that before he leaves office next year most of the schools in the state will have a face-lift.
Amaechi enjoined the church to support government programmes and policies, and reiterated that the present administration is poised to eliminate all sorts of discriminations between indigenes and non-indigenes, hence the decision to cancel discriminatory fees in government owned tertiary institutions.
He, however, implored them to go and pick their permanent voter’s card and register in the ongoing voters registration exercise, assuring them that is one way to vote out bad government and sustain the good works of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) government in the state.
In his remarks, Catholic Bishop of Port Harcourt Diocese, Most Rev. Camillus Etukudo praised the governor’s courage in the quest to transform Nigeria, “ I am thanking God for you that you are Catholic and proud to be a catholic.
“We are happy to have a candid person that inspite of the turbulence he has not forgotten the church,” Bishop Etukudo said.
The Catholic bishop also lauded the governor for his effort in ensuring that the church recovered its land being used now as pastoral centre.
Cross section of newly qualified medical doctors at the 35th induction ceremony by the College of Health Sciences, Uniport last Thursday. Photo: Chris Monyanaga
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