Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, has said that his administration is poised to promote arts and culture to make it more viable to contribute to economic development of the state.
    
He stated that his government would invest in different culture and tourism sites in the state to attract the kind of strategy needed to make the sector revenue yielding one.
   
Mbah disclosed, yesterday, during the unveiling of a stage play, titled, ‘The trial of King Ahebi…The woman who became a man,’ written by the Executive Secretary of Enugu State Council for Arts and Culture, Laurence Ani, and presented, in collaboration with the Enugu State Ministry of Culture and Tourism, that there was enormous opportunities in the culture and arts sector.
   
Represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the governor emphasised the need for people to begin to see things they considered leisure as economic values.
   
He disclosed that the play will be produced as a movie, and be shown in cinemas, both locally and internationally, as a means of “repositioning the state as an arts and culture destination.”