Abia inaugurates Human Capital Development Committee

Emelam Udo, Umuahia.

State Government has inaugurated the Human Capital Development Work Plan Committee with a charge to deliver on its mandate targeted at increasing investments on people and improve the human capital indices of the State and Nation.

Engineer Ikechukwu Emetu, the Deputy Governor, while inaugurating the nine-man Human Capital Development Work Plan Committee at Government House,, Umuahia, disclosed that the HCD was one of the programmes that Governor Alex Otti wanted to use in strengthening some of the focal points he marshalled out during their electioneering campaigns to ensure that Abia  is better and moved forward.

Emetu pointed out that it had become pertinent to diversify from dependence on an oil based economy to agriculture to reduce every form of unemployment, especially as it concerns the youths to enable them become gainfully employed and restrain them from any form of rascality and criminal tendencies.

The Deputy Governor who also doubles as the Chairman of the HCD Committee expressed optimism that through the actualization and realization of the $22.3 (twenty two billion, three hundred million dollars) grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to the Cocoa Producing States of Nigeria, the Agric revolution process would be able to do more to ensure that the HCD becomes very sustainable and be envy for other States to emulate.

Speaking earlier, the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning,  Dr Kingsley Anosike noted that the HCD which was launched in March, 2018 by the National Economic Council was designed as a catalyst to drive citizen participatory and sustainable economic roles aimed at addressing poverty related issues.

Responding on behalf of the Committee, the Commissioner for Finance, Mike Akpara thanked the State Govt for the opportunity given them to serve and pledged their loyalty and support that would ensure that their great vision and greater Abia was achieved.

Members of the HCD Committee are   the Deputy Governor as Chairman, the Commissioner for Budget and Planning as the Focal Person/ Secretary, while the Commissioners for Finance, Education, Health, Agriculture, Sports and Youth Development are members.