Accurate Data, Tool for Effective Project Execution- Omokhodion

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By Lucky Isibor


The Edo State Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability, Arc. Joshua Omokhodion has reiterated the imperative of accurate and reliable data in the execution of government projects, policy development, planning and service delivery. 

     
       Arc. Joshua Omokhodion
Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability, Edo State 

The Commissioner noted this in his remarks during a courtesy visit by officials of the Federal Ministry of Environment who came to brief him on the upcoming training exercise by the federal agency for Environmental Health Officers in Edo State on surveillance system of environmental health data collection.

The Commissioner stated that the visit was timely and important as Governor Godwin Obaseki had always emphasized on accurate data collection as a tool for making informed decisions.


He assured them of the Ministry’s cooperation and support in ensuring that the training exercise is becomes a success, adding that no stone would be left unturned in ensuring that the goals of the Federal Ministry are met.

According to him, "one of the greatest challenges we have in this part of the globe is that we do not have a proper data storage system and in wanting to achieve things early, especially in the health sector, data is important as it also determines the safety and well-being of the people".


Addressing the Commissioner earlier, the Senior Environmental Health Officer and Field Epidemiologist in the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Faith Gbagidi explained that they were in the Ministry to intimate the Commissioner on the training of Environmental Health Officers on surveillance systems of environmental health data collection.

According to Mrs. Gbagidi, the Environmental Health Officers who are drawn from the eighteen Local Government Areas of the State would be trained on how to collect environmental health data from communities, which would be sent to the Federal Ministry of Environment through the State Ministry.

While commending Governor Godwin Obaseki for the ongoing developmental strides in the State, she explained that the five-day training would take place in the six geo-political zones of the country, adding that Edo State is the pilot state for the training.

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