Obaseki to Edo people: Expect industrial revolution

By Patrick Ahanor
Benin City

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state yesterday pledged his administration’s resolve to rebuild the Benin Technical College for the training of skilled technical manpower and job creation for the fulfillment of his campaign promise of industrial revolution in the state.
He stated this when led members of his cabinet on an inspection tour of the College for an on-the-spot assessment and the facilities therein.
Obaseki, who expressed displeasure on the facilities said: “Look at what we have. It’s unacceptable. We will take very drastic measures in the next few weeks.
“We have to rebuild this institution and we have to bring it up so that it becomes the basis for training technical manpower. We need to drive our industrial revolution in the state.”
According to him, in our election promise, you recall, we said emphasises was going to be on jobs.
“And to create jobs, you have to have facilities and institutions where you train people on practical knowledge on how to create work and create things and that is why we felt that the first point of call should be to find out what happened to our technical college.”