With 365 days left to complete his administration, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Thursday said he want to leave a strong, solid financial base for his successor.
Governor Oshiomhole said he would complete all on-going projects as well as initiate new ones.
Oshiomhole who spoke to a huge crowd at a town hall meeting to mark his seventh anniversary said he would not relent his effort to collect taxes.
In a response to Governor Lucky Igbinedion advertorial for Oshiomhole to point to one industry built in the past seven years, Governor Oshiomhole said he never promised to build any industry but to create atmosphere for private initiatives to thrive.
Oshiomhole listed the Azura Power plant, bamboo factory at Anegbette, reviving of the Okpella Cement Factory as products of investments in infrastructures.
He stated that investment in Information and Communication Technology helped to eliminate ghost workers and prevented dead persons from collecting pension and gratuities.
Oshiomhole stated that contractors have been mobilized back to various sites in the state.
He disclosed that teachers who were interviewed by a team of Professors from the University of Benin would soon be recruited.
I never promised to build any industry – Oshiomhole
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