Smart Green Schools, my covenant with Enugu child – Gov Mbah

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu state has disclosed that the Smart Green Schools educational infrastructure in the state are his covenant with the Children of Enugu state and promise of a new society.

The 260 Smart Green Schools located in every ward in the state were initiated by the Mbah administration and kicked off statewide on Monday. The newly built blocks of schools accommodates primary and junior secondary schools with innovative infrastructure and retrained teachers.

In his broadcast for the official commencement of Enugu’s transition to Smart Green Schools, on Monday, Governor Mbah said that education is the cornerstone of a new society and that the Enugu Smart Schools are to turn aspirations into realities.

According to Governor Mbah, each of the 260 Schools is designed as a complete ecosystem for learning, stating that “Smart” means integrating technology, critical thinking and problem-solving into every subject.

He noted that each of the schools has about 25 digitally-connected modern classrooms, ICT centres, robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) labs, e-libraries, and spaces for experiential learning.

“They are ‘green’ because they have renewable energy sources and smart farms where children plant, grow, and harvest, learning agriculture not as theory but as practice. Every child is provided with free uniforms, books, meals, and tablets.

“Each school has its own medical clinic, reliable water systems, and community halls that anchor the school in village life. Housing for teachers is on site so that the best educators live within the communities they serve, ensuring continuity of care, and commitment,” the Governor proposed.

He said that when children combine skill with culture through science, story, mathematics, music, creativity, connection, and play - they join the head, the heart, and the hand and become a wholesome integrated being. 

“With this interdisciplinary ferment they become agile and respond to the needs of the age. We need artists who can develop a business, engineers who can think creatively, farmers with tech skills. Coupled with a strong sense of trust, purpose and civic identity, the result of this experiential learning model becomes our own social glue,” Mbah said.  

The Governor disclosed that he was not born into comfort, but grew up in the slums of Port Harcourt, where every day was a struggle and nothing was guaranteed. But that one thing was always clear to him, that if he could learn, he could grow. And at 28 years, he had graduated with a law degree in the United Kingdom after breaking through countless walls of economic circumstance.