Deputy Governor Monisade Afuye says N2 billion has been committed to upgrading schools across the 16 local government areas and 18 LCDAs in Ekiti.

Ms Afuye announced this on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti at a stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on implementing human capital development.

She said Governor Biodun Oyebanji made human capital development the third pillar of his policy, thrust upon the assumption of office, substantiating how desirous the government was to develop the productive population.

Ms Afuye explained that the government had also been widening the scope of healthcare delivery and universal health coverage through great investments in primary healthcare.

She said this was to mitigate the scourge of maternal and child mortality, low life expectancy and untimely deaths of people in the state.

The deputy governor saluted the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the release of the first tranche of funds to Ekiti through the National Office of Human Capital Development Programme to begin life-changing projects in some critical sectors.

She also mentioned that the heartwarming indexes the government was recording in education, health and human capital development were clear and well-amplified testimonies to the government’s huge investment in those critical areas of the economy.

According to the deputy governor, from January to date, the Ekiti government has recruited 1,500 teachers for primary and 500 for secondary schools.

According to her, the government had also demonstrated a significant commitment to boosting universal health coverage, unfettered access to family planning, antenatal care delivery, free treatment for children under five, and free malaria treatment.

“The current government has also approved the payment of new salary structures for health workers in the primary healthcare development cadre to serve as a morale booster,” she said.

(NAN)