By Our Correspondent
As the Governor of Delta State docks one year in office, the Commissioner in charge of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Delta State, Hon. Overah Onofekohwo Joyce, has scored Senator Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa high on his policies and programmes which has transformed the state for just one year.
Hon. Overah who was also member representing Sapele/Okpe and Uvwie at the House of Representative in an interview with journalists at Ovwori on the occasion of the burial ceremony of late Madam Menetie Chanai, The mother of Hon. Moses Ogodo, Chairman Sapele/Okpe Community said the Governor is very Committed to delivering on his “SMART” Agenda which they have fully executed.
He said this governor knows that employment is becoming an issue in the country hence they set out to revitalize and rejuvenate the 3 technical colleges out of the existing six, to make sure that they can bring out people who are skilled, not people after education will go about looking for paid jobs, which is a big plus for this government.
The commissioner maintained that when Okowa took off, it was the time oil prices actually nosedived and in spite of that, till date the Delta State Governor is very much at it, as they are not indebted to anybody with the Governor taken on massive road construction all over the state.
His words, “you should go to the North, South or Central, there are road Construction all over the state. What of education, because we equally know the importance of education on the citizen. He has committed so much funds to revamping and rejuvenating all institutions including the water sector. There are lots going on round the state to bring back water to the people. I think Deltans should hope for more because our Governor is a governor who feels the purse of the ordinary Deltans” he said.
He advised Deltans to be patient with this government assuring that the Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa “means well for the people, he thinks well as well working hard, trying to put things in place to make sure we progress beyond the level we have reached” while praying that better money should come to the state for the governor to do more for his citizens.
The Commissioner added further, “Sometimes I ask myself, where is this Governor actually getting all these money with which he is doing all.these things in the midst of paucity of funds, he is indeed a man with the magic wand and truly we are going to get there, Deltans should pray for him and his government because some day the collective dreams of all Deltans will be met by this particular government”.
Comrade Collins Obeghe, the National People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Secretary who also spoke to journalists, said “My amiable Governor is trying hard for Deltans, he has done a lot for the state in one year, the entire roads have been transformed, all infrastructures have been put in place, I score him high as one of the best Governors so far in Delta State and Nigeria as a whole since the inception of Democracy in 1999.
He is going to transform Delta State to another London, Deltans should give him more support and as well pray for him.
