Anambra State Governor Peter Obi on Monday handed over N10m cheques to each of the 253 public secondary schools in the state.
The governor, who gave the cheques at
the Women Development Centre, Awka, the state capital, also gave out 200
Sport Utility Vehicles to traditional rulers in the state.
He told the gathering at the occasion
that he had just started a revolution in the state that would soon be
felt in all sectors of the state.
He said the state government had decided
to buy and give to every secondary school student in the state a copy
of Chinua Achebe’s Trilogy containing his classic novels, Things Fall
Apart, Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease, as well as a copy of his last
book, There was a country.
The governor said the N10m for each of
the secondary schools was just the first phase of the rehabilitation
programme the government planned for public secondary schools after it
had rehabilitated mission schools it handed over back to the churches.
The governor also said that the state
executive council had approved the sum of N6.5bn for the rehabilitation
of schools in the state.
The governor said the donation of SUVs
to traditional rulers was in recognition of their pivotal roles and to
keep them in relative comfort.
Chairman, Anambra Traditional Rulers Council, Obi Alfred Achebe, said what Anambra was witnessing under Obi had no precedence.
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