ENUGU – Dr. Peter Mbah, the Enugu State Governor, has charged Councilors and Council Chairmen in the state to take charge of government’s development projects in their respective local governments and wards through intensive monitoring and holding the contractors to account to ensure that they adhere to both quality and timelines. He also reminded them that there was no luxury of time, urging them to “get cracking in solving the pressing social and economic challenges in various localities.
” Mbah, who gave the charge during an onboarding programme for the newly elected 260 ward councilors on the State Project Management Team for Smart Green Schools and Primary Healthcare Centres on Wednesday. He emphasised that the 260 Smart Green Schools and 260 Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres being constructed in all the 260 electoral wards were very key to the state’s economic growth, assuring skilled manpower for the 21st century economy and good health for optimal productivity. “The Smart Schools are about transformation.
We are expecting that all the 260 structures will be standing by February 2025. By September 2025, every child in Enugu State should have access to Smart Green Schools. “So, you cannot know that these transformative projects are coming to your ward or LGA as a Councillor, chairman or deputy chairman and afford not to take ownership of them or hold the contractors to account.
You all have a duty. We have to see ourselves as trustees .
