Members of the newly inaugurated Human Capital Development Work Plan Committee have been charged to deliver on its mandate targeted at increasing investments on people and improving the human capital indices of the State and Nation.
Abia State Deputy Governor, Engr Ikechukwu Emetu, gave the charge while inaugurating the nine-man Human Capital Development Work Plan Committee at the Government House, Umuahia.
He disclosed that the HCD is one of the programs the Governor, Dr Alex Otti wants to strengthen as one of the focal points marshalled out during their electioneering campaigns to ensure that really better the lots of Abians.
Engr Emetu pointed out that it has 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 is also the Chairman of the HCD Committee expressed optimism that through the actualization and realization of the twenty-two point three million dollars grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to the Cocoa Producing States of Nigeria, the Agric revolution process will be able to do more to ensure that the HCD will be very sustainable and be an envy for other States to emulate.
Speaking earlier, the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Kingsley Anosike said the HCD which was launched in March 2018 by the National Economic Council is 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, Mr Mike Akpara thanked the State Govt for the opportunity given them to serve and pledged their loyalty and support that will ensure that their great vision and greater Abia is achieved.
