By Christiana Ekpa
A Non Governmental Organization known as Peace In South East Project (PISE-P) has unveiled a 6 month action plan geared towards implementing its 8 pillars of development.
Recall that PISE-P, an advocate of non kinetics approach towards ending the security challenges in the south east region of Nigeria recently launched thrives under 8 pillars of education; agriculture; commerce/industry; infrastructural development; culture and tourism; sports/entertainment; governance/leadership and reconciliation/rehabilitation/reintegration.
The unveiling of the action plan is a step towards boosting the infrastructural development of the region.
Speaking virtually on the “South East Political Roundtable”, a current affairs radio programme on FLO FM in Umuahia, Abia State, the convener of the project and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu said that the 6 months strategic plan will see to the improvement of healthcare delivery amongst other developmental pursuits.
He said: “We already have what we call our six months strategic plan, our operational plan that will be addressing socio-economic challenges, enhancing security and peace building, 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 peace building. 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 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
