The Abia state government says it has concluded plans to renovate and retrofit 200 existing Primary Health Centres across the state before the end of this year. The Commissioner for Information Prince Okey Kanu who announced this development during a press briefing after the state executive council meeting said that the project which is being executed by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Abia state Primary Healthcare Development Agency has a delivery period of one hundred days with effect from September, 2024......READ THE FULL STORY>>.....READ THE FULL STORY>>
“It is a bold step being undertaken by the Ministry (Health) and work will commence across the State in those 200 Primary Health Centres in the first week of September and the delivery of those projects will be somewhere around December.
“All the 184 wards of the state will benefit from this project. I believe that will turn out to be some form of Christmas gift to Abians.” Prince Kanu stated.
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On the recovery of public lands taken over by private individuals, Prince Kanu disclosed that the committee constituted to that effect has swung into action, starting with recovering lands belonging to Government College Umuahia, assuring that the government will not back out from the exercise no matter the pressure.
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“They (the committee) were in Government College Umuahia where they retrieved the land that had been compromised there.
“Government will not back out from the program of recovering all the lands illegally acquired by unscrupulous individuals in our schools. The committee will not back out no matter the push back from those who may have engaged in this selfish take over of school lands in the State.”
