3. Education
Rotimi Amaechi put in serious work in sorting out Rivers State’s shambles of an education system.
Prior to 2007, the state’s educational system had broken down, due to years of neglect that left basic infrastructure in the 1,300 primary schools with six classroom each, in ruins. School buildings with dilapidated roofs and where children in overcrowded classrooms sat on bare floor to learn, was a common sight.
The desire to reverse the situation spurred Amaechi to declare a state of emergency in the sector. First, he decided to fix the infrastructural deficit by constructing 500 out of the 700 planned new modern 14 classroom primary schools, retraining and recruitment of 13,000 teachers.
Today, over 250 of these schools have been equipped and the pupils are provided free uniforms, free school sandals, free school bags and free textbooks. Several hundred Rivers indigenes and non-indigenes have benefited from the state undergraduate and post graduate overseas scholarship schemes.
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