Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaeehi has thrown light on his decision not to commission some of the various completed projects that were started by his administration across the state.

He told media executives in Port Harcourt over the weekend, while conducting them round some projects, that it was a basic function of Government to construct projects for her people, adding. “1 see no need for people to come out, with fanfare, and dance for me”.

“I am merely carrying out my constitutional requirement so why dance for me for doing what I am elected to do, he queried”.

Governor Amaechi, who drove in the same bus with the media executives during the tour explained that Rivers State Government was poised to lay a solid foundation for the health sector providing modern primary health facilities in local communities across the state to reduce pressure on the secondary healthcare delivery system

He pointed out that whereas primary healthcare centres are essentially meant to handle out-patient cases, such cases were still being taken to the general hospitals due to inadequate and well- equipped primary health centres in the state.

It was for this reason he said, “government was building over 150 new Model Healthcare Centres in the state with at least five in each of the 23 local government areas of the state”.

At the New Niger Hospital in Diobu, Governor Amaechi told the team that government was equally strengthening the secondary health-care system by expanding and building more model general hospitals with standard doctors quarters.

The state chief executive also announced that the Dental and Maxillo-Facial Hospital at Garrison Junction, Port Harcourt, which was one of the places visited, would be expanded by building another 300 bed general hospital and doctors quarters within the space where the old Hotel Chez Therese was demolished.

Governor Amaechi said Government in its policy on education intended to build at least 46 new model secondary schools across the state, and phase out all existing ones with a view to giving every child in the state an equal opportunity to quality secondary education.

At the Trans Amadi Gas Turbine Station, the governor told the visitors that upon completion of the new 100 mega watts turbine plant in October this year, the state would be generating 245 mega watts of electricity with an expected projection for about 400 mega watts in 2011.

He said already seven new sub stations would be built across the state to boost power supply from the power station to the communities.

Also visited was the multi-billion Naira Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity Road project under construction, which according to the governor, was one of the costliest projects in the state, because of the terrain of the area, saying that on the Opobo Nkoro axis of the road two more bridges are to be constructed before crossing into Opobo.

Other projects visited were the Mile One Market, Rainbow Housing Estate, Model Secondary Schools Eleme, and Model Primary Health Centre, Wiiyaakara.