Umahi inaugurates school feeding committee

By Jacob Ogodo and Egwu Agha Amarachukwu, Abakaliki

Ebonyi state Governor, Chief David Umahi, has in a minor cabinet reshuffle, redeployed two commissioners to new ministries in a way to achieve efficiency and inaugurated a state’s steering committee on primary school-feeding programme with a charge on them not to give pupils foods with much carbohydrate contents.

Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting, the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Senator Emmanuel Onwe, said the cabinet reshuffle affected only two ministries, which include Agriculture and Natural Resources and Economic Empowerment and Job Creation. Onwe said the governor directed that Orji Uchenna Orji, who was in charge of Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, should take over the Ministry of Economic Empowerment and Job creation while Moses Ogodo Ali Nome of Economic Empowerment and Job creation takes over as the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources. Meanwhile, Umahi while swearing-in the 10- man committee urged the committee to pay less attention to food such as garri, rice among others, adding that they should give the pupils foods with rich minerals contents such as vegetables, fruits, milk among others to give them rich mineral supplements for their physical nourishment and mental development.

“The state executive council should be aware that catering for the committee’s logistics is its responsibility as its chairman, Rev. Fr Abraham Nwali should soon present a budget to the council. He noted that the committee needed to be assisted to move freely to schools especially at the Local Government Areas (LGA) to collaborate with the committees at that level consisting of council chairmen and others from the educational sector. “It is important to adequately develop pupils through good meals and sound moral upbringing, as individuals saddled with the responsibility of taking care of our children should not mortgage it. The governor also swore-in the new Chairman of the state Health Management Board, Dr. Oliver Nwankwo and charged him to discharge his duties equitably with much work to

do in the state’s health sector. The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Augustine Nwankwagu noted that the steering committee replaced the disbanded one which had no vibe in its activities while the chairmanship of the health management board became vacant when its former chairman, Dr Sunday Nwangle became a Special Assistant to the state governor. Nwali, who is the Governor’s Senior Special Adviser of Religion and Welfare Matters noted that they would approach their functions with the fear of God and service to humanity.

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