Speaking on Wednesday night at a reception organised in his
honor by Concerned Ebonyi State Indigenes was Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the newly
sworn-in Minister of Science and Technology, where he promised in Abuja that he
would strive to be the best minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet pledging
that he would work assiduously to emerge as the best minister the country ever
produced.
In his own words , “One assurance that I will always give
you and I have said it repeatedly, is that as your son, I will never do
something that you will be ashamed of.
“It is better for me to leave politics than for me to do
something for my own selfish interest that will make you to be ashamed of your
son.
“I will continue to act in a way that Nigerians will know
that Ebonyi State is truly the Salt of the Nation.
“I want to assure you that I will make sure that I will be
the best minister Nigeria ever had,” he stated.
The former governor of old Abia, stressed that no nation had
ever attained greatness without science and technology.
“I want you to go home with these words: no nation from the
beginning of time has ever become great without embracing science and
technology.
“The U.S. is the greatest power in the world; the largest
economy, the strongest military and the U.S. has the highest diplomatic
potential that she has used in the maintenance of peace all over the world.
“But the U.S. was able, is able and will continue to do so,
so long as it is leading in science and technology,’’ the minister noted.
He added that Nigeria
had the potential not just to be one of the 20 leading economies, but one of
the 10 leading economies.: “but we cannot do it without science and
technology.’’
He recalled that about 23 years ago, he started the
Technology Village Project in Abia which was disrupted as a result of military
intervention.
“Science and technology will take Nigeria to a height on imagined today; we will do our best to be the instruments that Nigeria will
use to get to that height. And I need your prayers; I need your support.’’
This was in his own words and we wish him best of luck in achieving
this.
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