Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has pledged to prioritise the welfare of the state’s people in all his programmes and policies.

Mr Mbah disclosed this to correspondents at the end of a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Lagos.

He said since his assumption of office in May, the target of his administration has been to uplift the standard of living of the people and to review the efficiency of public service.

“I’m sure you are aware that we have provided what we promised the people in 180 days: to provide water to the people in all the homes in our state, which is squarely in urban areas.

“And for those who still don’t have it, we are expanding the pipeline network to reach them. We’re building 260 smart schools across all the wards in the state. We’re building 260 Primary Healthcare Centres Type-2 across all the wards.

“We’re migrating our manual ways of doing things in our various institutions and our various MDAs to a digital platform so we can offer an efficient service to the people of the state,” he said.

On the 2024 budget, Mr Mbah said that it would transform the state’s infrastructural landscape and bring back the lost glory of the coal city.

“We are making sure that we harness all the resources we have within a niche and that we also mobilise our domestic revenue.

“And that’s essentially why we have proposed an ambitious budget and ambitious revenue projections, for we are convinced that we will realise those revenues,” Mr Mbah said.

On the visit to the president, the governor said it was to felicitate with him on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year festivities.

“I also seized the opportunity to discuss with Mr President some of the policies he has initiated and the impact those policies have had on some of the things we’re doing in Enugu State.

“Particularly as it relates to the attraction of FDI. The effects of the harmonisation of foreign exchange and the removal of the fuel subsidy. They have essentially meant that several foreign direct investments are flowing in our direction, particularly in Enugu State,” the governor stated.

(NAN)