| The
inaugural speech of Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, Governor of Enugu State
on May 29th,
1999, was instructive
as it set his focus and the agenda for the socio-political transformation
of a devastated Enugu State.
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"Our interest is in those people who time has forgotten, those who
civilization has left behind; our brothers and sisters who are outside
the 'belt way'".
"The mother in Umulokpa, who dies in normal child birth; the baby in Ndiabor who dies from simple diarrhea,the child who drowns swimming across Agu Iduma Aniyi River in Amagunze to get to school, and the father in Ugwugo- Nike who agonizes over the payment of School fees." "Never, Never, Never again! Never again shall we have two societies
in Enugu State. No more two societies: one for the rich, one for the poor;
one for those at Coal Camp, a "Today, change will start. Indeed it has started. Change to one great society, where that mother in Umulokpa will have equal access to health care as the mother in G.R.A., the child at Amagunze will have the same access to education as the child in Independence Layout. The child in Ndiabor will have the same access to health as the child in Ekulu, Enugu." In other words, the deployment of state funds for |