Ihedioha promises Imo Free maternal healthcare and Free Education
          
Deputy Speaker of the House of Rep­resentatives and the Peoples Demo­cratic Party, PDP governor­ship candidate in Imo State, Hon Emeka Ihedioha, has promised Imo citizens free and qualitative education if elected next year, Sun news Reports.
Delivering a lecture titled, “The legislature as an instru­ment of a social change” at the Champion Better Society lecture series held in Owerri, the state capital, Ihedioha said that he would not only make education free but the poor performance of the students in examinations would be re­versed.
According to him, “If I am elected Governor of Imo State, education will be quali­tative. We will reverse the recent poor result of Imo in­digenes in WAEC and NECO Examinations.
“In the 2013 WAEC exami­nation, Imo State scored an average of 46%, “whereas our neighboring states of Anam­bra and Abia scored 67% and 65% respectively.
This is unacceptable and must be reversed for the sake of the future of our children” he said.
Ihedioha said that the transfer of two items: Right to free Primary and Mater­nal Health Care Services and Right to free Basic Education from Chapter 2 of the Con­stitution on the Fundamen­tal Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy to Chapter 4 on Fundamental Human Rights was a land­mark achievement, which when eventually enacted, would bolster the Human De­velopment Index of Nigeria by ensuring that citizens are granted access to basic Health and Education facilities.