Anambra Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor has urged journalists in the state to do more in reporting the achievements of Governor Chukwuma Soludo, emphasizing the importance of synergy between the government and the media.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that Dr. Mefor while addressing members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Anambra Council when he led a delegation of Soludo’s media team to the October monthly congress at the Godwin Ezeemo International Press Centre, Awka, stated that the governor wants to reset the entire state, and he’s doing that through the road networks he’s building.
” I keep talking about roads because it’s one major physical infrastructure connecting every part of the state. The 21 local government areas are being connected with stone-based roads constructed to last at least twenty years”.
Dr. Mefor described Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s free education policy as a way of breaking generational poverty transfer among families where poverty has become a dynasty in the state.
“The latest he has done is to proclaim free education from primary to junior secondary. Now he has added senior secondary. That free education is breaking generational poverty transfer.
” There are widows and poor families where poverty has become a dynasty. There’s now the possibility of riches coming into such families through free education. That’s the kind of future Soludo is building.”
“The ‘One Youth, Two Skills’ Programme and the free education from primary to senior secondary schools are ways of dealing with poverty transfer, just like the ‘Igba Boi’ system adopted by Ndigbo after the civil war.
Dr. Mefor urged journalists in the state to do more in fairly reporting the governor’s achievements, even as he assured that he would work out a physical interactive meeting between the governor and journalists in the state.
“I want us to work together. Let’s strike a chord—a synergy that will make Anambra better. Soludo is on a mission of rebranding; resetting the entire state, and he’s doing that already,” he said.
In their separate remarks, the Anambra State Chairman of NUJ, Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, and the first female Professor of Mass Communication in Nigeria and former Commissioner for i
Information in Anambra State, Prof. Chinyere Stella Okunna, assured of the union’s support and willingness to partner with the government for a better and greater Anambra.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Mr. Christian Aburime and the Managing Director of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) Mr. Christopher Molokwu commended the leadership of Odogwu urging the union to sustain its role as the watchdog of the society.
