Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has ruled out political correctness in the war against insecurity in state.
Mbah stated this in his keynote address at the 2024 Standing Committee Meeting of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, holding in the state capital on Thursday.
Arogidigba Global Journal reports that the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, led by the Primate, Most Rev Henry Ndukuba is holding its Standing Committee meeting in Nike Diocese, Enugu State.
While addressing the Church, Mbah said, “one of the often-repeated goals of my government is the vision to grow Enugu State’s economy to one of Nigeria’s top three, and also to achieve a zero percent rate in the poverty headcount index.
“These are not mere posturing. Yet, by no means did we ever assume that their attainments would require anything less than painstaking efforts.
“Achieving those targets necessarily entails the fixing of critical building blocks. One of these building blocks is security.
“There is thus in Enugu State, no twiddling of thumbs or sitting on our hands in matters relating to security.
“In fact, there is no room for political correctness in dealing with any threat to security. We demonstrated this when we ended the illegal ‘sit-at-home’ order that a fringe gang of criminals had tried to impose in Enugu State.”
“In securing Enugu State, the strategy has not been limited to the familiar deployment of security personnel to the streets and acquisition of vehicles. Cutting edge technology plays a vital role in the mix. This is no flippant claim.
“Enugu State is on the verge of launching a real-time platform where round-the-clock surveillance of major streets in the capital is done, incorporating human and artificial intelligence,” he added.
He noted that since every nation’s socio-economic fate is often closely tied to the standard of its tuition or the attention its government devotes to improving the quality of education and access to it, his administration devoted the lion’s share of the state’s 2024 budget to education, and was ramping up the establishment of 260 Smart Green Schools to prepare the children of the state for the future.
The governor, therefore, craved the Church and the citizens’ continued support in the task to reinvent Enugu State.
“The path might seem tortuous sometimes, but the hint of the enormous gains the journey promises outweighs the fleeting discomfort,” he concluded.