Mbah takes oath of office, makes mouth watering promises
By Our Reporter
Peter Mbah, the winner of the March 18, 2023 Governorship election on Monday, May 29 took oath of office as the Executive Governor of Enugu State.
Mbah, who was the reviewing officer at the parade mounted by a detachment of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) took the oath alongside his Deputy, Barr Ifeanyi Ossai..
In his inaugural speech, the new governor said his administration would, among others, invoke the spirit of enterprise by pursuing an economic growth that was unrivalled in “this part of the country.”
“We will tap into the limitless resources of the private sector to provide world-class infrastructure and productive sector growth.
“We will retool and re-energize our agriculture/agro-allied sector. We will unlock our rural economy through the implementation of Special Agro-allied Processing Zone.
“We also plan to provide a N100 billion revolving fund for our SMEs in partnership with the private sector and other development financial institutions, ” he said.
Mbah said that the youths of Enugu State would be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the tomorrow that is now here today.
“We want to expose our youths to the skills required to grasp the emerging future and create opportunities for the genius in them to flourish.
“We also want to invoke and instill in them the can-do spirit that is innate in the Igbo man, ” he said.
According to him: “Enugu will rubbish Japa, not by legislation but by creatively addressing the challenges to the future of our youths.
“We will equip our youths with e-commerce, fintech and cyber-security skills, such that they will become globally interconnected, and can indeed ‘Japa’ all over the world by providing services online through their e-commerce skills.
“They will be champions of the globe without necessarily having to leave Enugu.”
He promised not to let down the people of Enugu State, adding that he would provide purposeful Leadership to take the state to the highest level.
The governor also promised to adopt a kinetic approach to tackle insecurity in the state going forward.
“We will strengthen community policing architecture; neighbourhood watch and forest guards.
“In this mode, we will deploy modern technology such as CCTV cameras and others, as well as establishing a command-and-control centre in Enugu State, so as to track perpetrators of crime who we will pursue and bring to justice, ” he stated.
Some prominent citizens of the state including former governors Jim Nwobodo, Okwesilieze Nwodo and Sullivan Chime were in attendance at the inauguration ceremony.
