Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has that the people in the state have made a covenant with God and that there would be no breaking it “either by us or God Himself.”
In a broadcast to the people of the state today, Umahi said: “the wonderful and merciful God who brought us thus far, making us part and parcel of the New Year in good health, shall remain our keeper. He will surely do a lot more for us in 2016.”
He said that he has been entrusted with governing the state through divine mandate, adding: “for this reason, we christened our 2016 budget, the Budget of Divine Actualization
The governor is hopeful that the good God who gave him the mandate will finish the year 2016 well with him.
“We have a covenant with Him and there is no breaking it either by us or God Himself.
“He will help us to actualize our budget trust predicated on transforming the state capital into a modern city and developing our major towns and rural communities. We will not go back on our promise to provide qualitative education for Ebonyians and making potable water available to the rural communities. We will continue to tackle headlong, the problem of poor road network within the state, pursue mechanized agriculture that would eventually sustain the enviable status of the state in rice production, develop ICT among numerous priority areas.”
Umahi asked his people to imbibe a new way of doing things. He asked them to re-channeling their creative energies to noble ventures for the good of the state.
“We must seek genuine repentance and refocusing for greater virtues, making sustainable and unbreakable resolutions for a better year 2016.
“As a government, we plead with Ebonyians to integrate their personal values and integrity into one over-all authentic governance frame-work in which government policies, rules and regulations and personal values can mutually reinforce each other.
“In the words of Plato (340BC) ‘Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.
“We have to learn from Plato and focus on creating a culture of good people in which personal values are aligned with the laws of the state and embedded in the minds of the people.”
Umahi said that he is not just in government for the sake of it, but to transform Ebonyi State and make it number one in the country.
“We will in 2016 touch more lives and together, take the state to an enviable height in the comity of states in the country. We are in government to create an environment where everybody will be seriously expected to achieve outstanding success and live in peace without trace of hostility. “We will create an environment where Ebonyians will dream dreams and nurture hope. Hope is everything and there is nothing like it especially where it is anchored on God.
“We shall zealously and jealously guide our goals. We are passionate about our goals, it is our covenant with God and the people of Ebonyi State not until they are accomplished to the last one, and we shall never rest on oars.” [myad]
