Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said that the investments made by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, on behalf of Anambra State government, is now worthless.
Soludo made this assertion during an interview with Channels TV’s “Politics Today” on Thursday.
Asked his perspective on government investing outside the public sector with reference to Obi as former governor, Soludo responded thus: “I don’t know about the investment.
“Our interview is about the 2023 budget. I’m not talking about investments of any of my predecessors. By the way the one that you talked about I don’t know about that. I think there was something I read about somebody speculating about whatever investment. With what I’ve seen today, the value of those investments is worth next to nothing. So, let’s leave that aside,” he added.
Meanwhile, Soludo said more than 5,000 teachers will get their employment letter in few days.
He said: “We are handing out employment letters to more than 5, 000 teachers to end an era of schools without teachers.
“We are going to have 240 plus doctors and consultants to man our general hospitals. So if you look at the five fingers approach of our programmes, we designed our budget to keep our eyes on the ball,” he said.
No fewer than 6,000 out of 31,000 applicants who participated in the online recruitment examination for teachers in Anambra State scaled through.
Soludo had ordered for employment of both primary and secondary school teachers in the State school system barely two months after assumption of office to beef up teacher/students ratio in the State.
The Commissioner for information, Mr. Paul Nwosu, said following the recent teachers’ Computer Based Test (CBT), a total of 6,250 candidates were shortlisted for oral interview for the teaching jobs across the State.
According to him, 3,250 would be deployed to primary schools, while 3,000 would be for secondary schools, adding that the oral interviews have been scheduled to commence on July 27, 2023, to last for two weeks.
Nwosu said: “The interviews, which will come in batches, will hold at Igwebuike Grammar School, Awka; St John of God Secondary School, Awka and Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB) Awka.”
But following the controversy that trailed the first online CBT, the governor had ordered its cancellation and directed a repeat, while the government bore the cost incurred by the applicants.