Action Alliance Governorship candidate in Rivers State, Larry Allison says barely a month after he is sworn into office as Governor of Rivers State he will set the state on the path of accelerated economic progress.
He stated that with the enormous economic resources at its disposal, Rivers State has no business surviving on handouts from the Federation Account, promising to extricate her from the current economic quagmire it was experiencing.
Allison, who was a gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, said he moved to Action Alliance to actualize his ambition of providing the strategic leadership the state needs to take her pride of place in the comity of economically buoyant states.
“Rivers State has more than enough economic resources that she does not need to wait for Federal Government handouts. I have put things in place that will be put in motion in 30 days of my administration”.
Recently, the state has been taking top spots on the list of states with negative economic indices. Just last year, it was rated as the state with the highest unemployment rate. It was also rated topmost on the misery index.
Currently, the state that formerly topped the chart as the most educationally advanced state in the country with pupils and students from the state winning laurels both at home and abroad, has been classified as very backward educationally.
A key indicator of the negative trend of its educational standing is the rate of youngsters being killed daily or apprehended by security agencies for diverse crimes. Lack of infrastructure, understaffing, and a gaping lack of policy on education by the current administration in the state has set the state backward drastically.
Just last week there were about five reported incidents of cult-related killings involving youths aged between 20 and 25 in different parts of Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The ex-security czar disclosed that his team has put together an economic blueprint to rescue the state from the plummeting economic status and return it to the path of economic progress.
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