on the sideline of the recent Edo SummitYou can split them in two broad categories. In education, we have been able to pull back a system we thought was lost. Within a short period of time, we recovered our education system. This has huge life implication across the board. It helps us with social policy and many things. Number Two is the institutional reorder, where we’re now able to say, ‘look, first, this is our reality: we are only earning N100, therefore we cannot spend N200.
As part of the old Bendel State, Edo was famous for cash crops like cooca, rubber and oil palm. Why have you not taken pragmatic measures to re-enact that era in the agricultural sector? The summit helps us to throw more light, create that communication, that bridge between what we are doing as government and the rest of the society. Our plan is to work before we begin to talk; because a typical model is that you you just keep talking and begin to commission things, so that people would say ‘he is working’. For us, we said no politics for the first three years. After three years, when election is ahead of you, you can begin to make the noise and play the politics.