Over 1,000 projects, recruitment of 15,000 teachers, skilled workers ongoing, says Mbah

The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has said that his administration is currently executing over 1,000 landmark projects across the state, which would be completed in record time, in addition to ongoing recruitment of 15,000 smart school teachers and skilled workers into the state’s workforce.

Mbah, who disclosed this, yesterday, in Enugu during a brief chat with some select youths and media practitioners drawn from across the South-East, who paid a courtesy visit to his office, stressed that 11,000 new smart school teachers were undergoing recruitment and training at the Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation in the state.

While fielding questions from the youths on why his administration was in a haste to develop the state, the governor said his leadership approach was borne out of a well-researched disruptive and innovative model that would radically change the trajectory of governance in the state.

The governor said that the ongoing 260 Smart Green Schools in the state would redefine the way students learn and acquire knowledge that would help them compete with their peers in advanced countries, adding that the cut-off programme designed into the curriculum would introduce children at the age of three to new technologies and migrate them to the digital learning process.

Mbah equally seized the opportunity to refute the misinformation that his administration had increased taxes in the state, explaining that the state government does not have the power to increase taxes arbitrarily without legal backing from the Federal Government.