Onwuliri made the call during the annual presentation of the late Professor Celestine Onwuliri Foundation (PROFOUND), and the 2014 Eze Cletus and Ugoeze Dorathy Oparaoji Memorial Educational Foundation (ECUDOMEF).
She said President Jonathan had transformed the country beyond expectations through his transformation agenda, pointing out that the administration had continued to promote unity and quality education at all levels.
The Federal Government, she stated, had spent heavily on education with Imo State listed among the benefitting states.
The minister explained that what the state governments claimed to be doing on education and other sectors was occasioned by the large-hearted disposition of the current federal administration.
She urged the media to adequately report the federal presence in the states, adding that the media should highlight all UBEC and TETFUND projects in the tertiary institutions.
Onwuliri said each of these projects cost N46.4 million, “what the Federal Government does is to give the state the money, they engage their own contractors, but unfortunately in Imo State you give them the money they engage their contractors, they claim our projects, nobody tells the people this is President Jonathan’s projects”
Earlier, the minister had inspected and commissioned some projects executed by PROFOUND which included the three-bedroom bungalow for a widow, Mrs. Juliet Akanwa of Umuokeshi Amuzi in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area.
Other projects commissioned by the minister included, a town hall at Umuokoro Amuzi, Prof. Viola Onwuliri Liba Conclave at Ibeku in Aboh Mbaise LGA as well as products of beneficiaries of PROFOUND Youth Empowerment Project sponsored by her.
Also speaking, elder brother to the minister, Prof. Eddy Oparaoji announced that no fewer than 300 indigent school children of Amuzi community had benefitted from the ECUDOMEF scholarship scheme in the past 25 years.
Present at the occasion held at St. Jude Catholic Parish Amuzi were th e Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Rev. Ifeanyi Nwoye, Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, Chairman of Federal Road Safety Corps, and other dignitaries.
SOURCE: THE SUN
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