The Managing Director, Mr. Robert Dickerman, who disclosed this, weekend, at the Civic Centre, Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, while distributing books and other educational materials worth millions of Naira to a total of 15 tertiary institutions and 30 secondary schools across the South East zone, said EEDC was committed to making meters available to all homes in the region.
Dickerman disclosed that EEDC had already signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, with a foreign company to supply the meters, adding that as soon as they take delivery of the meters, its distribution to consumers would commence immediately.
He noted that EEDC was collaborating with Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, SEOF, to empower the secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the zone with books and other instructional materials as part of its corporate social responsibility, adding that the company was set to support schools and institutions in their catchment areas to achieve their set educational goals for the over all development of Nigeria.
Dickerman further noted that the initiative would not be a one event ceremony but a continuous process of lighting up the minds of the people of the area by constantly distributing books and other materials to them at no cost, pointing out that EEDC was embarking on the project because of its realization that education was key to the development of any nation.
Dickerman also regretted that the current spate of blowing up oil installations in Niger Delta areas by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has adversely affected the EEDC operations. having run short of gas supply, however reiterated the company’s commitment to lightening up the South East through distribution of quality electricity for domestic and industrial consumption, even as he reminded the people that his organization can only distribute power made available to it by power generation companies.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the coordinator of Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, SEOF, Hon Tony Obi had explained that the EEDC which is one of the latest outfits of the Chrome Group, in less than two years of operation, has deemed it necessary to positively touch the lives of the populace within its area of operation through education.
Obi further explained that SEOF which is carrying out the various cardinal objectives of providing for the needy in the society also has education as one of its schemes and at the same time, offering scholarships to indigent intelligent students, donating books to schools among other initiatives in the process.
He however drummed it into the ears of the beneficiaries that books and other materials donated must be used for the purpose of actualizing the objectives of the foundation.
Dr Mrs Beatrice Okonkwo, the state director of library services who represented Governor Willie Obiano at the event, commended EEDC and SEOF for their initiative.
In a vote of thanks, the Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Prof. Godwin Onu advised the students to re-develop reading culture to enable them become educationally sound and not to pass examinations, adding that with such a reading culture, they would come out from school in flying colours so much so that they would also become employers of labour and not only employees of labour.
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