3 skills acquisition centres ready for use – Ortom

By Daniel Agbo

Makurdi

Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, has disclosed that three skills acquisition centres built in partnership with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the state were ready for use.
The governor spoke at the opening of a one day workshop on the “Role of Houses of Assembly in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals for Legislators” held at the banquet hall of Benue Hotel, Makurdi, yesterday.
“These centres are expected to mop up some of the idle youths that are usually veritable tools for causing crisis and mayhem in the hands of unscrupulous politicians,” he stressed.
The governor also listed the construction of 42 primary health centres across the state, procurement of six referral vehicles and essential drugs as well as consumables for hospitals in six local government areas as well as the construction of solar powered and seven hand pump boreholes.
Other projects undertaken under the scheme, according to him, include the construction and equipping of seven primary school blocks, distribution of branded exercise books, construction of an orange packaging factory in Ushongo as well as garri processing factories in Ohimini and Agatu in addition to soya beans and sesame threshing and cleaning plants in Tarka and Oju.
The governor said other interventions included upgrading of schools in Ado and Guma as well as theatre at the General Hospital, Otukpo.
In her address, Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, noted that the state was one of the shinning lights in SDGs mainstreaming across the nation, adding that the state’s example was showcased as a best practice at the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

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