A six-month action plan designed to implement the Peace In South East Project’s (PISE-P) eight development pillars in the South East geopolitical zone has been unveiled. The PISE-P’s creator and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, stated that among other developmental goals, the six-month strategic plan would address the zone’s healthcare delivery system.
According to a statement from his chief press secretary, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Kalu made this claim virtually on a current affairs radio program on FLO FM in Umuahia, Abia State, called the “South East Political Roundtable.”
He said that plans are in place to have a town hall meeting in April of this year with all of the legislators from the five eastern states—Abia, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, and Enugu—to talk about problems such as strategic lawmaking and conflict resolution.
The statement quoted the deputy speaker as saying: “We already have what we call our six-month strategic plan, our operational plan that will be addressing socio-economic challenges, enhancing security and peacebuilding, stakeholder engagement, strategic implementation, resource management, monitoring and evaluation, communication and awareness, all these things have been done by experts and we are looking at achieving, promoting sustainable development, those goals.
“We look at conflict integration and peacebuilding. We are going to be looking at enhancing access to education and healthcare, we are going to look at infrastructural development, empowerment and capacity building, community engagement and participation and sustainable peace and stability.
“These things I am talking about are some of the things that will be happening in the next six months and there are economic performance indicators, the KPI that we will be using to measure our progress in the next six months, economic activities as it is.
“We are going to be looking at the percentage increase in job opportunity created within the women, we are going to be looking at income level, those in average incomes that are in targeted communities.
“We are going to be looking at business development, number of new businesses established or supported, number of businesses we can bring back to the South East through our advocacy like I told you 15 billionaires were there. They came to watch what is happening and to say they are in support of it because they want their businesses to thrive here.
“We are going to be looking at healthcare accessibility which will include increased access to healthcare services and facilities. We are going to be looking at community engagement, and participation in community programmes and events, there will be a lot of town hall meetings.
“There is a town hall meeting that is coming for the entire South East which is going to be around the Easter period where we are going to meet with all the legislators in one room and they are going to discuss how they want the legislative year to look like, it is coming up as part of our project.
“And we are going to have security and peace indicator, conflict resolution. We are going to be looking at a decrease in community conflicts or disputes, we are also going to look at the crime rate within the next six months, and a reduction in crime rate within targeted areas that we are going to pick as flashpoints. We are also going to be looking at peaceful co-existence which is going to focus on an increase in interactions among diverse community groups.”
And then also another indicator is the one that has to do with infrastructural and development indicators, infrastructural improvement, and progress in infrastructure development e.g. road construction.
“And also project milestones, we are going to look at the completion rate of infrastructural projects within a specified timeline; one thing is to attract infrastructure, the already existing attracted infrastructure, what is the timeline for their completion, who is pushing the agenda to make sure they are completed early enough.
“If the state is doing the one for the state, what of the one for the federal government, who is pushing it, these are the kinds of jobs we are going to be doing.”
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