By Chibuzor Okoye
Members of the National Institute For Policy And Strategic Studies, Kuru, Senior Course Forty Three, 2021, have arrived Anambra state for one week study tour of the State.
Explaining why they are in the State, the leader of the delegation, Dr. Ibrahim Chonji (mni) who said that the Institute is the apex think thank agency of the Federal government, noted that they were mandated to study seven States in northern Nigeria and seven in southern Nigeria.
Dr. Chonji further noted that every year, the Institute meet for ten months to deliberate on pressing National issues with a view to providing practicable solutions and this year, President Buhari has mandated them to go and study why the issue of implementation of policies and programmes, remain the problem bedeviling the Country.
Welcoming members of the Institute, the Secretary to the State government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu who thanked members of the Institute for the visit give them an overview of what the Obiano administration has done since inception in 2014.
Prof. Chukwulobelu assured the participants that all the Ministries, Departments and Angencies in Anambra state will give them full and maximum cooperation.
The Commissioners for Works, Health, Basic Education, Agriculture among others are already seated to make their various presentations.
The theme for the study tour is “Getting Things Done: Strategies For Policy And Programme Implementation In Nigeria”.