President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Federal Science and Technical Secondary School in Imo State.
The ground breaking ceremony of the College sited at Umuaka in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State had already been done.
Briefing newsmen after the weekly session, presided over by Governor Hope Uzodinma, the State Commissioner for Information Declan Emelumba expressed the State Government appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Ministry of Education for finding Imo suitable and worthy to site the Federal institution.
In the same vein, Emelumba said that Imo State is seriously considering a date for the soonest resumption of tertiary institutions in the state so that the students who have been at home as a result of the prolonged ASUU strike can “resume and continue with their studies because they are tired.”
Emelumba said that one critical concern to the Government is the noticeable indifference shown by Imo citizens to the Executive Order on the wearing of face masks as a major tool to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 in the State.
Consequently, he said the Exco has directed security agencies to henceforth enforce the order comprehensively in the interest of the health of Imo people.
He reiterated that wearing of face mask, observation of other Covid-19 protocols such as social distancing, regular washing of hands, use of alcohol based sanitizer where there is no water in Imo State to avoid resurgence of Corona virus is still compulsory.
According to the Commissioner, the Covid-19 Community testing is still ongoing and will soon be completed in all the 27 local government areas of Imo State, noting that reports from the exercise indicate that the rate of spread from areas covered is very low, hence the need for the citizens to obey all the protocols.
