The Edo Government on Friday in Benin Organised a Colloquium to conclude activities lined up to commemorate the seventh year anniversary of the Adams Oshiomhole led administration.
Discussants at the ceremony include serving commissioners drawn from selected ministries were resolute on the need for continuity to sustain development in the state.
Discussing on the issue the “Edo Project, Defining the issues and addressing the challenges: Post 2016, discussants agreed that the state was in comatose in every sector prior to the present administration.
According to the state Deputy Governor, Dr Pius Odubu, prior to the Oshiomhole’s administration the local government administration in the state was almost non existence.
Odubu explained that local government chairmen then only went to the councils when allocation arrives.
He added that but the Oshiomhole Administration not only brought in people with like minds and vision to oversee the affairs of the councils as care taker committee when he came on board, he also ensured that they worked.
He disclosed that presently local government councils in the state were not only independent and free to manage their own resources, the government had also ensured that transparency and accountability was the order of the day, just as impunity has been removed.
He also said that local government salaries which had hitherto been in arrears was addressed just as the relationship between the local government and state government was now robust.
He concluding by saying that the way forward was for there to be continuity in governance.
Similar, Mr Osarodion Ogie, commissioner for works disclosed that prior to the present administration, roads in the state were mostly death traps because of their very deplorable state.
He however said that but when the administration came on board, it ensured that roads in the state were redesigned and to last longer, adding that all roads constructed in the state by the present administration have 30 years durability period.
He also said that the administration had been able link up villages and open up forgotten communities.
In the health sector Dr Erigie aikhanuwa maintained that constituent political will to remain on course was the way forward.
According to her 57 health care projects have so far been executed across the three senatorial districts in the state, just as free eye glasses have been provided for senior citizens of the state who were over 60 years.
She also said that free malaria treatment was approved for expecting and nursing mothers and their children.
She therefore said that there was need to sustain all these.
On his part, Chairman of the state Economic team, Mr Godwin Obaseki said that a reformed Civil Service sector as well as focus on science and technology was the way forward.
He explained that the driving force of any economy was the civil service and also called for job creation as well as including the people in the economy.
