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Mbah also said that his administration would make skills and vocational education compulsory for all indigenes and residents of Enugu State from the age of 12 to effectively address the challenge of unemployment and service the planned economic growth.

One of the ways to de-risk investment flows to Enugu stated is to work with centres like this because, in our development plan, it is well captured that we are going to have a lot of skills acquisition, technical, and vocational education across many locations in the state.

“We have therefore proposed a humongous vision to the people of Enugu State that we are going to grow our economy from the current $4.4 to $30 billion.

So, we simply said that our mission is going to make Enugu State the preferred destination for investment, for business, and for living

On compulsory skills and vocational education, Mbah said: “Beyond just saying that we are going to have technical and vocational education for our young people, we are actually going to work with the House of Assembly to create a legislative framework so that it will be mandatory for every Enugu citizen, for everybody living in Enugu, who is up to the age of 12, to begin to have access to technical and vocational education

In his intervention, the Danish Consulate General in Nigeria, Per Christensen said they had their corporate investments and activities in Lagos state and one in Northern Nigeria, stressing that with the right policies, they were willing to have one in Enugu State to serve Eastern Nigeria as they had no corporate investments in the region yet.

The Consul General further said he would be glad to come back to Enugu State if Mbah is elected to discuss further on how they could come in with their investments.