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“The result also calls to question, the huge amount that is spent annually within the past three years, especially in the training of youths, on different skills, such as the YAGEP, STEP, the support of fish farmers, the rice project policy, expenditures on supporting the various security services in the state, to curb banditry and kidnapping in various parts of the state”

By Emmanuel Enebeli
The Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration in Delta State has emerged with low scores in the areas of human capital development, agricultural development and security.
The was the result analysis of the score of the governor in an online survey carried out by www.ndokwareporters.com, an online news platform.
In the areas of human capital and agricultural developments, the administration scored a dismal 4.17 per cent respectively, following with knocks for another shocking low of 8.33 per cent in the area of security. It, however, scored high in the roads and infrastructural development score categories.

The survey, which ran for three months, saw 3,000 persons responding to a question, in what area they can easily assess the performance of the Okowa led administration in the state, since inception.
The questions were focused on infrastructure, roads, human capital, security, and an option not considering any of the parameters.

The survey was conducted using the Total Soft plugin, which was installed in the website to carry out the process. The software has automatic numerical indexing of results, by providing the percentage of the survey counts of each measurement parameter.

In the final results obtained from the analysis, roads, and other infrastructural developments like educational facilities, hospitals, got the highest number. However, the breakdown shows that while roads scored 29.17 per cent of the respondents, the other infrastructural developments like schools, hospitals, water, scored 33.33 per cent.

These three parameters from the survey in which the administration got low scores can be termed shocking, as the government had used every opportunity to project how its efforts through the different programmes on youth development, which also is infused with human capital development and agricultural development efforts had improved on lives in the state.

In the final result obtained from the analysis, the roads, and other infrastructural developments like educational facilities, hospitals, got the highest scores.
The breakdown shows that while roads scored 29.17 per cent of the respondents, the other infrastructural developments like schools, hospitals, water, scored 33.33 per cent.
However, with the survey report, the government have to look at the strategy of the various implementations of training, and agricultural programmes in the state.

The result also calls to question, the huge amount that is spent annually within the past three years, especially in the training of youths, on different skills, such as the YAGEP, STEP, the support of fish farmers, the rice project policy, expenditures on supporting the various security services in the state, to curb banditry and kidnapping in various parts of the state.

The survey also took into consideration those who feel that there is no need to use the above parameters to assess the government performance, since 2015. The group of respondents fall within 20.83 per cent of those who were undecided on the assessment of the progress made by this government. This can be termed high, as it may give the impression, that these groups of respondents are yet to decide whether this government had performed or not.

The highest scores obtained in the area of roads, and other infrastructural development, could be a plus, as this can be justified by number of roads the government claimed it had resurfaced or constructed, the Asaba Water Drain, the renovation of schools, hospitals, provision of water and many more that falls within this category.