Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has announced that the Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe University in Ogboko, Ideato South is now fully owned by the State people and for their benefit.
Governor Uzodimma made the announcement on Friday while speaking to newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport Owerri on arrival from Abuja.
Uzodimma said his administration “rejected an attempt to convert the K. O. Mbadiwe University built and furnished with the tax payer’s money, by an individual.”
The governor also said that “the need to have full grasp of the University is anchored on the growing youth population in Imo State and level of drop-outs resulting from inability of these youths to secure admission in the tertiary institutions.
“The need for more higher institutions in Imo State became inevitable and to that end, government has to encourage the youths by securing the second state-owned university.”
Furthermore, he added that his administration is driven by the three cardinal points of reconstruction, rehabilitation and recovery, noting that to achieve vision his government is busy “reconstructing the roads and recovering government assets in addition to rehabilitating all the moribund factories/industries that were in bad state” before he assumed office.
“Put together there is no doubt that the shared prosperity government is making progress to satisfy the expectations of Imo people,” he added.
