The Anambra State executive council presided over by Professor Chukwuma Soludo has approved the construction of a rehabilitation centre at Nibo, Awka South local government area, to address the state’s mental health issues.
The state Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor said the decision to build the center is to allow those who leave the state’s asylums to access rehabilitation facilities that provide all the services they need to fully heal before returning to their families and communities.
The contract, which is expected to cost N417.32 million, was awarded to Triseconds Resources Ltd.
The executive council also took a decision on the proposed Anambra Rebirth Programme and determined that the programme’s blueprint should address a number of important issues to achieve its main objectives, such as the restoration of the Igbo apprenticeship system, the return to hard work and integrity, the criminalization of obscenities, especially the flaunting of money, and warped ideologies of wealth without work.