GOV NWIFURU SWEARS IN MORE POLITICAL APPOINTEES, TO OFFER POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP TO 1000 PERSONS

REPORTER: AMECHI ODO

Ebonyi State Government is to sponsor one thousand qualified graduates on advanced studies within and outside the country under its renewed scholarship scheme due to commence in May this year.

Governor Francis Nwifuru announced this during the swearing in of some political office holders at the Government House, Abakaliki.

Those sworn in include a Senior Special Assistant, nine Special Assistants, members of Ebonyi State Market Development Board, Ebonyi State Agricultural Land Development Authority and the Ebonyi State Scholarship Board.

Governor Nwifuru pointed out that the political office holders were carefully selected to drive the People’s Charter of Needs and urged them to justify the confidence reposed in them.

He charged members of the State Scholarship Board to select qualified one thousand graduates of mathematics and computer related courses for post graduate scholarship, of which three hundred would study abroad while seven hundred would be trained in Nigeria to work in thirty nine special secondary schools being built by the government.

Two of the public office holders — Mr. Eni Uduma Chima, who was assigned the Chairman of Ebonyi State Fertilizer Board and Mrs. Pauline Nwagu appointed as Special Assistant to the Governor on Culture and Tourism —promised to serve the state diligently.

The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Professor Ogugua Egwu, who was appointed a member of the State Agricultural Land Development Authority, commended the state Governor for constituting such a body at a time Nigerians were facing food inflation.

The Chairman of the Scholarship Board, Chief Chaka Nweze, promised not to compromise the criteria set by the government to raise the standard of education through scholarship.

Also, a news staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Unity FM, Abakaliki, Comrade Sunday Nwambam, who was also appointed the Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter Party Affairs, promised to use the experience garnered over the years in political reporting to discharge his duties.

The Principal Secretary to the Governor, Chief Matthias Adum, advised the appointees to see their selection as a call to service and not a time to display arrogance and mere arrival in political circle.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU