The Delta Commissioner for Economic Planning, Mr Sonny Ekedayen, says the state government will steadily drive its fiscal responsibility policies to promote growth and development of the state.
Ekedayen made the pledge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Monday.
He said that the ministry, which was vested with the responsibility of planning the state economy, would ensure it delivered on Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori’s development thrust.
The commissioner said that the state government was determined to aggressively pursue its infrastructural development plans across all the state’s senatorial districts.
“We are ready to focus on strengthening the education and the health sectors of the state.
”So, we expect lots of improvement in both quality and the number of infrastructure to be executed across the state.
“You cannot try achieving massive infrastructural development without the requisite backup of human capital development.
”That is why the development of the education and the health sectors should also be strengthened,” he said.
Ekedayen assured the people of the state government’s commitment to reducing their poverty, saying that the administration needed healthy people to drive its vision and improve its space.
He advised residents to find alternative productive means to fend for themselves, especially during the current harsh economic times.
”People should find a way and means to get back to some small form of production,” he said.
The commissioner stressed the need for Nigerians to embrace agriculture, saying that this would go a long way to stimulating improved production and assuring food security.
”This state is blessed with good weather and nice arable land soil.
“But we have abandoned agriculture that used to be one of the mainstay of the state for perceived fanciful jobs and other means of livelihood,” Ekedayen lamented. (NAN). READ ALSO:
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