Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said he is prepared and will continue to pay the necessary price that will guarantee peace.
He stated that he is committed to ensuring peace in the state and among its people so as to foster development.
Fubara, who spoke on Tuesday at the 3rd convocation and 6th Founders’ Day ceremonies of the PAMO University of Medical Sciences, Iriebe, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, said there is no price that will be too big to pay to ensure that peace prevails.
The governor assured that the provision of a quality education system and affordable public healthcare services will remain two vital priorities of his administration that are driven to achieve universal access for all Rivers people.
He said: “While some progress has been made, it is obvious that a lot still needs to be done to achieve our collective aspirations for universal access to quality education and healthcare for our people. I need not say that no society can progress without educated and healthy people.”
Fubara noted the giant strides achieved within six years of PAMO University founded by Dr. Peter Odili, to become Nigeria’s most outstanding private medical institution.
The governor announced that his administration has increased the number of students from 100 to 150, who can now benefit from the state’s yearly scholarship in the institution.
He said: “I assure you that we have no choice as a government, but to continue to offer tangible material support to enable the university to widen the scope and quality of medical education and services it provides in our state.”
In his speech, the Chancellor of the institution and former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), expressed the optimism that the graduating students will be good ambassadors of the institution that has mould them to be excellent in their studies by being human and honest in the discharge of their duties wherever they go.
Also speaking, Pro-Chancellor of the University and former Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odili, said the institution that started in 2018 has come of age graduating students for the six years study to become medical doctors and inducted into the medical profession.
Earlier in his welcome address, Vice Chancellor of the Pamo University of Medical Sciences, Professor Michael Diejomaoh, said about 89 students graduated with 40 of them as the first products as medical doctors, 49 others from various medical courses and 5 students graduating as first class.
