Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has said that his administration was rebuilding the state’s infrastructure to complement the development efforts of its founding fathers.

Amaechi, when participants of the Senior Executive Course 35 from the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Jos paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt, said: “We are only going back to where our parents left us.

“There is nothing we are doing now that King Diette-Spiff did not do, but they have all deteriorated. So we are going back to where King Diette-Spiff left the state. He built over 200 secondary and primary schools. We even had fish farms but they have all been vandalised or had deteriorated and the land taken over by communities.

“And we are building the monorail project. We have a target of January, 2014 to complete the monorail that will be the first in Africa. Now it is three kilometres and if we have N72 billion we will extend it to seven kilometres,” Amaechi said.

The governor spoke of his administration’s vision and efforts in education, health, welfare and other sectors.

“The model secondary schools, like the model primary schools are ICT compliant. An Indian company has taken over the sustainability of the project, but government is still negotiating with the due process to provide one child with one tablet.

“We promised our people 160 health centres, we have completed 120, the remaining 40 health centres are under construction. We have hired 400 doctors and making efforts to hire another 200 this year,” Amaechi said.

The governor also said the wage bill of workers has increased from N2.5 billion to N8.9 billion due to the inclusion of salary bill of primary school teachers, a responsibility undertaken by the local government councils before he assumed office.

On its government’s promise of ensuring 24 hours steady power supply, he said: “We believe that by the time all the power stations have been completed, we should be able to have 715 megawatts. So, for the next four to five years, whoever becomes the next governor will not concentrate in building new infrastructure.”