Board (ASUBEB) for the development and upgrading of infrastructure in government-owned primary schools, making it a total of N12 billion spent on education so far.
He also charged teachers to work for the victory of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Chief Willie 0biano and his running mate, Dr. Nkem Okeke, at the November 16, 2013 governorship election for continuity. Obi made the appeal at the Women Development Centre, Awka, during a special meeting of 1041 headmasters/headteachers of public primary schools. He described Obiano and Okeke as the best materials that should govern Anambra State after his exit from power owing to their rich credentials and integrity.
The governor, who recalled the dark days of the state prior to his emergence said from point zero his government had been able to save N20 billion in the close to eight years of his regime and attributed it to visionary planning, prudent management of resources and the goodwill of international donor agencies.
According to him, these agencies had lost faith in the state before he came due to the visionlessness and profligacy of past administrations. He recalled the difficulty he faced in trying to convince the agencies that it was no longer business as usual before they eventually agreed to partner with the state, a development, he pointed out, that had led to the success story of the present administration.
Obi said that with six months to the end of his tenure he was still determined to lead the state to the Promised Land and announced plans to recruit an additional 2,000 teachers and 4,000 civil servants whose salaries had been taken care for the next one year, even as he said they were those who should be ready to work in the hinterlands.
He said that one headteacher from each of the 21 local government areas will be sponsored for 2013 pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem as a way of encouraging them on the task of bringing up the children. The 2000 would-be teachers will bring to 10,000 the number of workers employed by the Obi administration.
The governor, who also disclosed plans to give farmers N1.5 billion and another N1 billion for micro- credit announced an increment of indigent people benefitting from government's assistance in training their children in school from 2,000 to 8,000 and reiterated his condemnation of the forceful takeover of mission schools by government after the civil war.
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